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l Theres good news for sukkah lov-
ers.
You might think its a bit late for
this news. You may well be reading
this very newspaper in your sukkah
after all, the holiday started
Wednesday night.
But if youre still nursing a bruised
thumb or a bumped head from
putting up your sukkah, youll find
the latest product offers a promise of
better next year.
As seen on a video thats making
the rounds you can go to our page
at Facebook.com/JewishStandard to
watch for yourself the technology
of inflatable vinyl that brought us
beach balls and bouncy castles has
now come to the festive holiday
booth.
It is packaged with its own electric
pump, which inflates it in a minute
and monitors the pressure to reinflate
it automatically when necessary
during the holiday. Water in the base
prevents it from being blown away.
Its roof is open, with an open grid
designed to support bamboo schach.
The video promises that the
sukkahs design has been approved
by Orthodox rabbis.
It is produced by an Israeli company
called Yarok, meaning green
which is a bit of an odd name for an
invention that transforms a harvest
booth made from cast-off wood and
recycled branches into a high tech
marvel of electricity and plastic.
It is light enough and small enough
to be easily stored and carried when
it is not inflated.
No word on whether it is resistant
to yellow jackets.
LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting: Friday, October 10, 6:05 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, October 11, 7:03 p.m.
For out of Zion will come
innovative disruptions
in sukkah technology
l Its not always easy being an
etrog.
Theres the risk of insect
infestation. Theres the fear that
you might be dropped and your
pitom that dried stem so
beloved by etrog connoisseurs
might become detached.
And that risk so real this
time of year that you might be
grabbed and violently shaken. In a
synagogue, no less!
Well, let all who would do evil
to an etrog beware. The goodly
fruit, that sukkot mainstay, now
has a comic defender.
Meet Captain Citrus!
A product of the Florida Citrus
Council, he was designed by
Marvel Comics for a reported
$1 million. His first adventure,
teaming him up with Thor, Captain
America, Iron Man, and Black
Widow, can be found at www.
floridacitrus.org/captain-citrus.
Hes powered by Florida
sunshine.
And if his first loyalty is to Florida
oranges and its juice juice that has
come under criticism from doctors
who argue that the health benefits of
its vitamins are offset by the dangers
of its calories that doesnt mean
he will never venture out to protect
citrons.
So all you who plot evil in the realm
where there is more shade than light,
you better think twice. Captain Citrus
just might come to the etrogs rescue.
LARRY YUDELSON
No guests, no glory. No girls?
l Hosting visitors on Sukkot is not just
a matter of neighborliness and conspic-
uous hospitality. For the mystical work
called the Zohar, Sukkot is an opportu-
nity to invite the iconic ancestors of the
Jewish people to drop in. And since for
the Zohar, everything is connected as
well as illuminated, these seven ances-
tors Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
Aaron, Joseph, and Moses are not
only historical personages, but also
separate aspects of Gods incompre-
hensible, multifaceted Glory.
There is a ritual for inviting them.
Both the ritual and the guests
themselves are known as ushpizin
the Aramaic word the Zohar uses for
guests, which like the word hospitality
derives from the Latin hospes.
And engravings of the seven biblical
figures along with the Aramaic texts
long have been a staple of traditional
sukkah decorations.
Theres a problem: Inviting these
seven ancestors leaves a severe gender
imbalance at your sukkah dinner.
In recent years, various matriarchs
have been added to the list. At
Neohasid.org, you can even find
an Aramaic text of ushpizin, where
patriarchs and matriarchs are invited
together.
Dov Abramson, a graphic designer in
Jerusalem, has addressed this problem
in his own way: Boldly and graphically.
He just published a series of 20
posters depicting ushpizot, women
ranging from Eve and Sarah to Prime
Minister Golda Meir and Torah scholar
Nechama Leibowitz.
Order today for delivery well before
next Sukkot. LARRY YUDELSON
Marvelous news for etrogs
added that it was clever
the way that the film-
makers enlarged the
scope of the book by fo-
cusing on Alexanders up-
set over his familys not
sufficiently sympathetic
reaction to his very bad
day. Viorst, by the way, is
the author of four Alex-
ander books, the latest
(Alexander, Whos Trying
to Be the Best Boy Ever)
was published this past
summer.
Last year, PBS ran
a well-received
documentary
(Makers: Women Who
Make America) about
important figures in
the womens move-
ment (including the late
BETTY FRIEDAN and
GLORIA STEINEM, now
80). This documentary
inspired a new six-part
series, focusing on im-
portant women in six
discrete fields. Frankly,
PBS publicity about this
series has been poor, or
I would have alerted you
sooner. The good news
is that you can almost
certainly catch up with
the first two episodes
online, via on-demand,
or when they are rerun
later this year. New epi-
sodes air Tuesday nights
at 9 p.m. on most PBS
stations. The September
30 episode, Women
in Comedy, explored
the history of funny
women and commenta-
tors included SARAH
SILVERMAN, 43, and
CHELSEA HANDLER, 39.
The October 7 episode,
Women in Hollywood,
included commentary by
LENA DUNHAM, 28, and
director/writer NANCY
MEYERS, 64. The up-
coming October 14 epi-
sode, Women in Space,
almost certainly will
mention JUDITH RESNIK
(1949-1986), the first
woman Jewish astronaut.
She died in the explosion
of the Challenger shuttle.
Also in this episode, of
course, is the late Sally
Ride, the first American
woman in space.
Ride is the subject of
a new acclaimed bi-
ography by her friend,
LYNN SHEER, 72, a well-
known ABC journalist
(20/20). Sheer recently
talked to the Forward,
about her own personal
background. Sheer said:
I grew up in South
Philadelphia and then we
moved to the suburbs.
We were Conservative. I
went to Hebrew school
and at Sunday school I
was confirmed. We didnt
have bat mitzvahs then.
I still dont know what
being confirmed meant.
My father [LOUIS Red
SHERR] was a star bas-
ketball player for South
Philadelphia High School.
He also played for the
University of Pennsyl-
vania and the semi-pro
South Philadelphia He-
brew Association team
[SPHA], which played
in the American Basket-
ball League [a precur-
sor of the NBA]. EDDIE
GOTTLIEB took many
of the SPHA players to
the Philadelphia War-
riors [which he founded],
although my father had
stopped playing basket-
ball by then.
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AT THE MOVIES:
Darkness and light
color the screen
Violence of a fic-
tional sort is the fo-
cus of The Judge.
Hank Palmer (Robert
Downey, Jr.), who has
long been estranged
from his father (Rob-
ert Duvall) and the rest
of his family, returns to
his hometown when his
father, a judge, is sus-
pected of murder. DAVID
KRUMHOLTZ, 36, has a
supporting role as Mike
Kattan, a young pros-
ecutor who challenges
Hanks moral views.
A new Disney flick,
Alexander and the Ter-
rible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day, is very
much lighter. It follows
11-year-old Alexander
as one calamity (like
gum in his hair) follows
another. Newcomer Ed
Oxenbould plays Alex,
with Jennifer Garner and
Steve Carell playing his
parents. Two other new-
comers play Alexanders
17-year old older brother
and 16-year-old sister.
The film is based on the
1972 childrens book of
the same name, writ-
ten by JUDITH VIORST,
now 83. The book sold
two million copies and
already has been the
subject of an animated
TV movie and hit stage
musical version. In the
book, Alex is 5 years
old and has two older
brothers, Nick and An-
thony). Viorst and her
husband of 54 years,
the well-known politi-
cal journalist and author
MILTON VIORST, now
84, have three now-adult,
successful sons. You
guessed rightthe sons
are named ALEX, NICK,
and ANTHONY. After
writing 12 well-received
childrens books and
other works for adults,
Judith Viorst switched
gears in the mid-70s
and earned a graduate
degree in psychology.
Her psychology-based
books include 2003s
The Grown Up Mar-
riage advice about
how to make a marriage
work. In 2003, she spoke
to JWeekly, the San
Francisco Jewish paper,
about her book about
marriage, saying that
Jewishness had been a
source of cohesion for
her. Being a Jew has a
family aspect for me,
Viorst said. The family
gathers here for the holi-
days. We know we are
Jews, but I wouldnt say
it has necessarily shaped
my views on marriage.
Publishers Weekly
recently was on hand
when Judith Viorst, along
with her son Alex, now
47, and Alexs wife and
children caught a private
screening of Very Bad
Day. Viorst called it an
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LARRY YUDELSON
C
ongregation Rinat Yisrael does
not host many non-Orthodox
Talmud scholars.
Sure, it has a member who
taught at the Reform Hebrew Union
College.
But someone who doesnt identify as
Orthodox? Who is proud of solemnizing a
gay marriage?
Yet Dr. Ruth Calderon, who will speak at
the Teaneck synagogue Sunday evening, is
not a typical Talmud scholar of any sort.
She has made her career bridging the
world of secular Israelis to use the 19th
century Hebrew phrase proudly claimed
by Israels atheist, socialist pioneers with
that of the classic works of Jewish civiliza-
tion, most notably the Talmud.
She earned a doctorate in Talmud at
Hebrew University for a dissertation on
structuralist approaches to understand-
ing talmudic stories. She launched a move-
ment of secular batei midrash, study halls
where Jewish texts are studied in a tradi-
tional manner but without traditional pre-
suppositions. And she has written books
to share her enthusiasm for the Talmuds
tales with the Israeli public. (The first was
recently published in English as A Bride
for One Night; the most recent appeared
in Israel just before Rosh Hashanah.)
But what catapulted her to international
fame and the Rinat Yisrael guest list
was her election to the Knesset in 2013. A
YouTube of her maiden Knesset speech
went viral in some Jewish circles, and
has been watched more than any other
talmudists video.
And a talmudists video it was. After
briefly telling her story and her belief that
The Torah is not the property of one
movement or another, she read a short
passage from the tractate Ketubbot, con-
cerning a rabbi who forgot to return home
on the eve of Yom Kippur and the tragedy
that followed. Then she elaborated on it,
pointing out nuances and implications a
master class from a master teacher.
David Jacobowitz, co-chair of Rinats
adult education committee, said he and
other members of is congregation were
astonished and happily surprised at the
shiur, or talmudic lecture. He was particu-
larly struck by the charedi Knesset mem-
ber who tried to helpfully add some infor-
mation rather than walking out in protest.
We saw that she dedicated herself to
trying to reclaim Talmud and Jewish texts
for the secular Israeli public who had been
unfortunately estranged from their heri-
tage for so long, he said. We felt it would
be an honor to have her in our community
to tell us more.
Dr. Calderon first opened a Talmud as
a 19-year-old college student. She remem-
bers the urge to connect Jewishly going
back to when she was 11.
I felt I missed something. I felt something
is lacking in the Israeli identity and educa-
tion, she said in an interview this week.
Somehow, she sensed something that
her European-born parents had that
was different from what she was taught
in school and in the Zionist youth move-
ments. She knew the missing ingredient
had a name Judaism but she didnt
know how or where she could get it. I
didnt want to become religious mean-
ing Orthodox she said. I didnt think
that was necessary. I wanted to stay in my
beliefs and values, but I felt that I was igno-
rant, as if I didnt know part of my family.
I felt Im not respecting myself if I dont
know where I came from.
Born in 1961, she had this realization in
1972. That was perhaps the peak year for
a certain kind of irreligious Israeli-ness,
fostered by the kibbutznik children of the
pioneers, the sabras who ran the country.
Five years after the Six Day War, the aus-
terity of Israels first years was far behind,
and the insecurity brought on by the Yom
Kippur war was in the future as was the
renewed respect for Judaism that Men-
achem Begin would bring into the public
arena with his election. Young Ruth Calde-
ron had noticed a real vacuum.
At 14, she gained a further education
in the way Jewishness meant something
more than just being Israeli. Her father,
a professor of entomology specializing
in the infestation of stored grains, spent
a sabbatical year in Canberra, Australia.
There, she was the only Jew in her school.
Children asked me all kinds of things
and I realized I dont know much, she
said. So she decided she would learn.
If this were a chasidic tale, the next
step in her journey to Talmud would be
an encounter with the renegade scion
of a famed talmudist. And indeed it was.
She spent her army service in the educa-
tion corps, arranging lectures and cultural
activities for the soldiers in the tank corps.
One day she brought Ari Elon in to lec-
ture on Talmud. Mr. Elon is the non-Ortho-
dox, Talmud-teaching son of Menachem
Elon, an Orthodox rabbi, Supreme Court
justice, and expert on Talmudic law. Ms.
Calderon asked Ari Elon where she could
study Talmud the way he taught it and he
pointed her to the Oranim Teachers Col-
lege, which offered a program in classic
Jewish texts.
The next day I took my backpack and
hitchhiked to Oranim and enlisted, she
said.
When, after army service, she began
classes and finally opened a Talmud, it
lived up to her hopes.
It really blew me away, she said. I felt
and still feel that it is so relevant to our
life here. Yesterday I was giving a class on
the kibbutz where my partner lives. Its
like the Talmud was written about us yes-
terday. Its a very amazing book that you
dont always study in an existential way.
After graduating from Oranim, she
went to Jerusalem, pursuing a graduate
degree in Talmud at the Hebrew Univer-
sity. There, the Talmud was studied as any
other academic subject. For the magic of
traditional study, arguing with a chevruta
a study partner in the study hall, she
studied at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
It was a wonderful place, she said.
But while it is deeply pluralist, the insti-
tute, like its founder, Rabbi David Hart-
man, was at its core Orthodox. I wanted
to be not only a visitor, not a guest, she
recalled. I wanted to be at home.
So together with an Orthodox friend,
she created Elul, a beit midrash where
secular and Orthodox Jews would study
together as equals.
Elul opened in the fall of 1989. It took its
name not only from the month of its open-
ing the Hebrew month of anticipation
and renewal preceding Rosh Hashanah
but from the famous pluralistic motto that
the Talmud attributes to God: elu velu
divrei Elohim chayim These and those
are the words of the living God.
It was not only the participants who
came from different worlds. Ruth Calde-
ron loved the Talmud, but in contrast to
No place like Jersey
Ruth Calderon considers herself a New Jersey patriot.
Thats partly from a lovely three years living in Livingston, from 2002 to
2005, when her then-husband was an emissary from Israel to the MetroWest
Jewish federation.
And its also from reading Philip Roth, who taught her that to understand
American Jewry one has to understand New Jersey. Its even more interesting
than New York.
Those years have given a lot of gifts to my children, who are fluent in
English. Its affecting my work in the Knesset, in being sensitive to Jews in the
world, not just Jews in Israel. Its not just an Israeli state; Israel is a homeland
for all Jews.
Its very important for me to say that I see Jews in the diaspora as full part-
ners in building Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Its important for me
to be a voice for them. I know you dont vote [in Israeli elections], but I would
like to be your congressman.
Her American stay also gave her an appreciation for American modern Or-
thodoxy.
Theres some kind of openness in American Judaism. A positive attitude
and a willingness to listen. Im very happy to be speaking in an Orthodox
synagogue in America. I feel at home, she said.
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a traditional yeshiva, the
Elul curriculum expanded
beyond Talmud and even
beyond Jewi sh texts.
The curriculum was the-
matic that first year
the theme was creation
and the texts included
works of Greek philoso-
phers (in Hebrew trans-
lation) and Israeli poets
as well as Talmud and
Zohar. Every text was
approached in turn with the method
of the beit midrash: First, an introductory
presentation. Then, breaking into pairs
chevrutot to read and discuss. And
finally, the group would come together for
a class to bring it all together.
It was fun and exciting, Ms. Calderon
said. I couldnt find a place to be at home,
so I was building my own nest. There was
a lot of meaning in the effort. I was learn-
ing all the time.
The learning didnt come just from the
texts. For the participants, it was an inti-
mate encounter across Israels religious-
secular divide. (Because this was Israel,
there were few participants who did not
fit on one side or the other of that binary
divide, but there were more than none.)
Secular Israelis could
see religious Jewish texts
through the eyes of Ortho-
dox Jews. And Orthodox
Jews could have the per-
haps more unnerving expe-
rience of seeing their famil-
iar texts through the eyes
of outsiders. One Orthodox
participant that first year still
remembers the eye-opening
encounter with the words of
Birkat Hamazon, the grace
after meals, words he had
chanted daily since kindergarten, when
his secular chevruta read them aloud as if a
newspaper article as he encountered them
for the very first time.
From that initial institution of 15 or 20
people, who met in a synagogue in Jerusa-
lem, a movement grew. Dr. Calderon went
on to found a similar institution, Alma,
in Tel Aviv, in 1996; Elul continues, and
there are a hundred other pluralist study
halls across Israel, a renaissance of Jew-
ish study.
All of this is Torah lshma study for
its own sake.
Degrees and academic criteria some-
times hurt the freedom of study, the
freedom of thought, the imagination of
feeling, she said.
Since joining the Knesset last year, she
has taken a leave of absence from Alma.
But she is proud in its latest accomplish-
ment: it is beginning a program with the
kibbutz movements education school
where teachers in training will spend
time in the Alma beit midrash. This, she
says, will ultimately bring the beit midrash
method into the Israeli public school
system.
Meanwhile, in the Knesset, she feels she
is having some success in changing the
Israeli conversation about Jewish identity.
Its a little more open. Its not a binary
choice of whether youre Orthodox or
nothing. You can express your Judaism in
many different ways, she said. Its like
massaging the very tight muscle of how
you can talk about Judaism in Israel.
Her bill to permit civil marriage in Israel
has stalled under opposition from an
Orthodox party that is a coalition partner.
My legislation is usually kind of deep and
big, she said, and is in part about educat-
ing the Israeli public toward the idea of
change, since you cant change reality
with legislation if its not ripe in society.
One conversation she hopes to enshrine
in law is a new approach to shmitta, the
sabbatical year. It is designed to restore
the ancient idea of releasing debtors from
their debts. She has launched a shmitta
fund to get 5,000 Israeli families out of
debt.
Participants will get budget counseling
to begin balancing their budget. Then the
organization will go with each of the fami-
lies to their creditors to renegotiate their
debt. The creditor the bank or electric
company or whoever will wipe off some
of it; the family will pay a third of it, with
no interest; and we are fundraising to pay
the gap between the two, she said.
These families can come out of that
terrible position where you have no credit
and can do nothing economically, and we
can fulfill the mitzvah of shmittat chovot
releasing from debts since the time of
Hillel 2,000 years ago. Its at the same
time a very ancient and a very modern,
very sustainable kind of project.
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Where: Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389
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Touching the Dead Sea Scrolls
Israel Museum scholar to talk about his work with antiquities in Glen Rock
JOANNE PALMER
I
magine being able to lay a gentle
finger on a part of the ancient, his-
tory-laden, extraordinarily evoca-
tive piece of parchment that is the
Dead Sea Scrolls. Imagine having the key
that unlocks the door to the room where
they lie.
Its a dream for any scholar to have
such a treasure in his hands, Dr. Adolfo
Roitman said.
Dr. Roitman, the lucky scholar, is their
curator, in charge of the Shrine of the
Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem,
where they are housed. He is going to talk
about them locally on Sunday, October
12, and he Skyped from Israel to give a
short preview.
As everyone knows, the Dead Sea
Scrolls are ancient Jewish documents
discovered between 1946 and 1956 in the
caves near a placed called Qumran, on
the Dead Sea, about 35 kilometers east
of Jerusalem, Dr. Roitman said. That
discovery made a crucial contribution
to modern scholarship on [the] Second
Temple, and on the origins of historic
Judaism.
We have been exploring a full range of
literature, beginning with biblical manu-
scripts the earliest unearthed were
discovered in Qumran, from 250 B.C.E.
We discovered a number of books long
before we discovered the scrolls; wis-
dom literature, magical books, liturgical
books. We have a lot of layers in Qum-
ran, he said.
That new perspective on ancient Juda-
ism is particularly useful because we all
are descended from rabbinical Judaism,
which has shaped the understanding
and self-understanding of Judaism for
2,000 years. These scrolls come from the
period before rabbinical Judaism.
When we see our modern Judaism
through the lens of ancient Judaism
that is, when we apply the lens discov-
ered and slowly deciphered in the caves
it looks quite different from the idea
we have of ancient Judaism.
For one thing, he said, the traditional
Masoretic biblical text we use today was
fixed about 1,000 years ago. Since then,
when any Jew goes into a new synagogue,
he wouldnt ask what version of the Torah
theyre reading. Theres only one.
Thats been true for a full millennium,
but among the 200 or so biblical manu-
scripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, only
40 percent are very close to the texts as we
have received them. That means that 60
percent are not, Dr. Roitman said. There
are crucial differences between those ver-
sions and the ones we have today.
For instance, one version of the book
of Jeremiah is a third shorter than the
one we have in our modern libraries. So
we know that there were at least two ver-
sions of the book of Jeremiah.
In one striking variation from what we
know as classic Jewish thought, we iden-
tify ourselves as the people who brought
the message of monotheism to mod-
ern civilization, Dr. Roitman said. We
believe in one God who is the creator of
the universe.
In some of the scrolls we have a dif-
ferent theology, where there was one
God, the creator of the universe, but
below God there were two major kinds
of angels. The leader of one of the par-
ties sometimes is called Melchizedek or
the Prince of Light; his opponent may be
called Satan or the Prince of Darkness.
According to the Qumran theology,
these forces were in an eternal strug-
gle. This kind of belief is called dual-
istic monotheism, and it sounds very
strange to us because our perspective is
so different.
For a third example of changes in Jew-
ish thought from the time when the Dead
Dr. Adolfo Roitman stands in front of the Shrine of the Book, established 50 years ago to house the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Sea Scrolls were written, We see the books in the
Bible as sacred literature, and then we have the cate-
gory of apocryphal books, which are not regarded as
sacred in Judaism - they are also seen as non-sacred
books by the Protestants. In Qumran, we have some
books that we usually call apocryphal; there are so
many copies of them there that the conclusion is that
some of these books which we modern Jews regard
as non-sacred, were seen as sacred by ancient Jews.
Pre-eminent among those books are Jubilees and the
First Book of Enoch.
Did the scrolls found in Qumran reflect the norma-
tive Judaism of the period, or was it instead a kind of
heresy? The question is a result of 2,000 years of rab-
binical Judaism, Dr. Roitman said. We didnt have a
normative Judaism in ancient times. We had different
groups or sects, some as well-known as the Pharisees,
the Sadducees, and the Essenes, and even the first Chris-
tians. It is a non-historical perspective on Judaism to say
that we had just one kind of Judaism.
We could say that in ancient times, we had most
of the Jews defining themselves around the backdrop
of the Temple in Jerusalem, but they didnt have just
one official or normative Judaism.
It has been 50 years since the Shrine of the Book
was established, on April 20, 1965, and the museum
will celebrate that anniversary throughout the year.
Although some of the commemorations will appeal
to academics, others will be aimed at the general
public. It will be very fun, Dr. Roitman said.
Dr. Roitman was born in Argentina; Alberto Zeili-
covich, the rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom of Fair
Lawn, one of the two Conservative shuls hosting his
talk, was his student in Jerusalem. The two come
from the same Buenos Aires neighborhood, and
went to the same Jewish day school. Dr. Roitman
earned an undergraduate and a masters degree in
anthropology in Buenos Aires, another masters, this
one in comparative religion, at the Hebrew Univer-
sity, and then remained at the Hebrew University
until he received a Ph.D. in ancient Jewish literature
and religion. And then, since November 1994, I
have been in my position as curator of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and head of the Shrine of the Book, he said.
He is the scrolls second curator; the first, Magen
Broshi, was appointed by the fabled archeologist
and military leader Yigal Yadin, and held the posi-
tion for 30 years.
I remember the first day when he gave me the
keys of the safe room where the Dead Sea Scrolls
were, Dr. Roitman said. I feel very lucky. I have
reached a climax in my academic career.
My dream was to become a professor at the
Hebrew University. I couldnt even have dreamt of
the possibility of being curator of the scrolls.
But sometimes dreams they come true.
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JOANNE PALMER
O
kay. So why did civilization begin as a search
for beer?
Who is the Jewish doctor who rescued
tomatoes from witchcraft so we could have
them on pizza?
Why did the apple, of all trees, become such a potent
symbol of religion?
Well, to look for answers to those and many other sur-
prising questions, look to ethnobotany, the subject that
most interests Dr. Jon Greenberg of Teaneck.
When you know more about the plants the Torah men-
tions, you can have a more clear understanding of the
metaphor and allusions that give life to the narrative. As is
so often the case, the more you know, the more you can
understand.
Scientific knowledge can be useful as an aid to Torah
learning, Dr. Greenberg said. Its not biblical criticism,
its not history per se its really using the science to
enrich our understanding and appreciation of Torah. That
includes archeology, natural history, and so much more.
Dr. Greenberg has a wide-ranging background. After
graduating from Brown, he earned a doctorate in agron-
omy from Cornell, so his scientific credentials are impres-
sive. He has researched corn, alfalfa, and soybeans for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture and for the University of
Pennsylvanias Institute for Cancer Research, so he adds
hands-on experience to his academic curriculum vitae. And
he has religious credentials as well he studied with Rabbi
Chaim Brovender at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Israel. After hav-
ing taught for many years on the university level, since 2008
he has been on the faculty of the Abraham Joshua Heschel
School in Manhattan, and he regularly leads tours and offers
programs that combine his twin loves Torah and nature
in surprising ways.
For more information on two upcoming programs
where you can get the answers to the questions posed
at the top of this story, because certainly we cant give
them to you here take a look at the box that accompa-
nies this story.
He teaches a course called Science and Torah, in which
he and the students talk about the nature of science and
the nature of Torah their agendas, the methods, and
their assumptions. We look at a couple of areas where they
interact, which includes creation and evolution. We look
at six or seven different approaches to try to understand
the relationship between those two things.
We also look at other areas for example, the ques-
tion of scientific statements in the Torah. What do we do
with them if they dont correspond to our understanding?
I look at different approaches. Some used the science of
their day. When it gets to halachic issues, I saw that we
cant assume that the explanation given there is the ulti-
mate reason. We really arent given reasons for them, so
people have the tendency to explain them in terms that
make sense for them. So if we dont find it easy to accept a
classical explanation for why we do a mitzvah, that doesnt
mean that we dont have the obligation for the mitzvah
any more. It just means that we dont understand it.
He used as an example the famous, once widely
accepted belief that pork is not kosher because it can carry
trichinosis. These explanations can become dated very
quickly, he said.
The area that really piques his interest is that often
there is a deeper message being conveyed in the Talmud
that is below the surface, beneath the literal meaning, he
said. He used as an example a story he has found himself
citing frequently, he said. Some people have the practice
of adding a little olive oil when they open a container of
olives, before they eat any. Thats based on two statements
in the Talmud, about what was believed to help or to inter-
fere with learning. One is that a person who eats olives
often will forget his learning. The other is that a person
who consumes olive oil often will retain things longer.
This sounds odd. What can it mean?
There are people who accept these practices, because
rabbinical authorities tell them to, although now most
people do not follow them. But whenever the Talmud
takes an absolute statement like this one, we can rely on it
being the case that the rabbis had access to much deeper
sources of wisdom than we have. It is possible to get a
much deeper lesson from this statement.
Now I bring in agricultural and food history. Jews have
been consuming olive oil since biblical times for cooking.
But it seems that Jews only began to eat olives in Roman
times. For anyone, eating olives was a new thing it was
the Romans who figured out how to cure olives to make
them edible. There is no question about the olive oil being
kosher; that rule is there to tell you that it is not enough to
go by the letter of the law. You have to go by tradition, too.
In other words, Dr. Greenberg said, It is okay to enjoy
the latest delicacy, but dont do it constantly. Remember
the real things in life. Dont pursue trends. Keep your eye
on the real purpose of life.
His approach to the Talmud takes the commonly
debated question of how to understand it do we take it
at face value or look for deeper mystical and philosophical
meanings? and turns it over. I am using secular knowl-
edge to reveal a deeper meaning, he said.
Botanical metaphor is so deeply embedded in the pro-
phetic literature that if we dont understand the botany,
we have a hard time getting the metaphor itself. They
dont spell out what theyre talking about because it was
obvious to everyone then, Dr. Greenberg said. If you
lived close to agriculture and nature, youd know. But now
Top: Eryngo (Hebrew charchavina) is a plant that the Talmud suggests can be used for maror on Passover. It
is soft and tender when young but becomes thorny, bitter, and inedible as it matures. The Talmud says about
maror, This is what the Egyptians were like soft in the beginning and bitter in the end. Bottom left, silver
sage (Salvia argentea) grows on the Temple Mount. It bears a detailed resemblance to a menorah, with its three
pairs of branches, central upright stalk, and tiny flowers shaped like ancient oil lamps. Bottom right, this prickly
lettuce (scientific name Lactuca serriola, Hebrew chasa matzpen) is growing on a traffic island in Paramus. The
wild ancestor of all cultivated lettuce, it is probably the original maror.
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Dr. Greenbergs October schedule
Who: Dr. Jon Greenberg
What: Offers the Torah Flora walking tour of the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and a
program called Noahs Wine vs. Pharaohs Beer.
The Walking Tour
Where: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
When: Sunday, October 12, at 10:30 a.m. and again at 2 p.m.
Why: To answer the questions posed at the top of this story, along with many
others.
How much and directions: Details at Dr. Greenbergs website, www.torahflora.
org/events.
For reservations: Email Dr. Greenberg at jon@torahflora.org
Noahs Wine vs. Pharaohs Beer
Where: The Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills, 71-25 Main Street, Flushing, N.Y.
When: Sunday, October 26, at 4 p.m.
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we have to reconstruct it.
Psalm 128 has a very strange sort
of blessing, he continued. (Your wife
shall be as a fruitful vine, in the inner-
most parts of your house; your children
like young olive saplings, round about
your table, it reads.)
Why?
Its not hard to explain the first half
the wife as fruitful vine but the
second part, about the olive saplings,
doesnt mean anything to us. But then
every Jew had a few olive trees. Olive
trees have two kinds of roots. The entire
Mediterranean region has rocky, eroded
soil. One set of roots grows deep into
this soil, and can live for a long time.
The second set of roots grows horizon-
tally, just below the surface, and then
turns upward and produces new shoots
around the original tree. So olive trees
are unusually long-lived; when a tree
gets very old, the inside rots, but its own
offspring have surrounded it like a wind-
break. So the verse means that your chil-
dren will support you when you are old;
its a medical/social support system.
Everyone then would have under-
stood that intuitively, Dr. Greenberg said.
We need it explained painstakingly before
we can get it.
But now, he continued, commercial
agriculture has changed all that anyway.
We dont want the old trees. We want
small, young ones, packed in, so horti-
culturalists will remove the small shoots.
We call them mamzorim bastards.
The meaning has changed because the
agricultural practice has changed.
Although Dr. Greenberg is not the first
Torah-based ethnobiologist, he is one of
very few, and he is forging new paths for
himself. He is interested in working across
the broad spectrum of the Jewish world,
showing the relevance of the Torah to lib-
eral Jews and the value of science to more
traditional ones. He refuses any labels
himself. I try to stay off the spectrum,
he said. Dont divide yourselves into
factions, the Rambam says. The Rambam
considered it a part of the biblical com-
mandment, and I take it as a way to avoid
putting myself into any one faction.
This is the best way to learn.
Dr. Jon Greenberg stands in the vineyard at HaGafen Cellars in Californias
Napa Valley.
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Alisa Flatows family
unveils mural in her honor
at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva
of North Jersey
JOANNE PALMER
A
lisa Flatow, a 20-year-
old Brandeis stu-
dent from New Jer-
sey whose dimples
flashed whenever she smiled,
has been dead for almost exactly
as long as she was alive.
She should have been 40 now,
most likely the married mother
of a small brood of children. But
terrorists decided that they pre-
ferred her dead, and they blew
her up. Nothing personal, of course she was just a name-
less passenger on a bus in Israel, in the wrong place at the
wrong time.
She was the oldest of five children, a vivid personality, a
real person, and neither her parents nor her siblings ever
have been willing to let her memory recede. Her father, Ste-
ven Flatow, has fought vigorously to make the countries that
funded her murder pay for it, and he has had some very real
success.
And now the family has dedicated a wing of the Rosen-
baum Yeshiva of North Jersey in her memory, so that all the
schools students, but most particularly the middle-school
girls, most of whose classes are in the wing, can learn from
and live by her example.
Adam and I just felt that we were ready to do something
in Alisas name, Francine Mermelstein of Bergenfield said.
Alisa Flatow, her familys oldest child, had three sisters
and a brother; Ms. Mermelstein is one of those sisters, and
Adam is her husband. Nineteen years later, and I still bump
into people who say I remember where I was when it hap-
pened. Those are people about my age. But now theres a
whole new generation.
Granted, my kids know about Alisa we talk about her,
and they know what happened but there is a whole new
generation of kids, and I want them to know.
Francine and Adam Mermelstein have five children; the
four older ones are at RYNJ, and the baby will be too, as
soon as he is old enough. Although the
Flatow children, who grew up in Essex
County, went to the Kushner Academy in
Livingston, which was local for them (and
Alisa commuted to the Frisch Academy in
Paramus, because Kushner then stopped
in eighth grade), the three surviving Flatow
sisters Ms. Mermelstein, Gail Reider, and
Ilana Berkowitz all live in Bergenfield.
Their brother, Eitan Flatow, lives in Israel.
Many of Alisas nieces and nephews are stu-
dents at RYNJ.
That means it was easy for the Merm-
elsteins to realize the RYNJ was the right
place for a memorial to Alisa, but they did
not know at first what form it should take.
We spoke to the school, throwing around
ideas, Ms. Mermelstein said. The second that they sug-
gested naming the wing, I knew it was the right thing to do.
Its not that I had been thinking about that I hadnt been
but the second they said it I knew it was right.
Its not that she was suggestible,
she continued, it was that the idea
made such good sense. If they had
suggested naming the nursery wing,
I wouldnt have felt the same way. I
would have said that it was a nice idea
but Im not feeling it. Sixth, seventh, eighth grades are
a time when girls are so impressionable. They are trying
to figure out who they are, and where they are going.
And what better role model could they have than Alisa?
They have so much to learn and to gain from her.
Ms. Mermelstein was in 10th grade, a few years out of
middle school, when her sister was murdered. She was five
years younger than Alisa. But she has some memories of
Alisa as a middle-schooler. I remember her walking with
her friends, vague memories of her being in school. She was
a little girl, hanging out with her friends. I remember her
knee socks, I remember her glasses, and I remember her
being with her friends.
And I remember her being the life of the party, always
the life of the party.
Last Wednesday, the school unveiled a mural and the
accompanying plaque. Cindy Zucker, the middle school
girls mashgicha ruchanit their religious guidance coun-
selor described the ceremony.
Michal Mermelstein, Alisa Flatows
niece, a seventh grader at RYNJ,
reads at the mural dedication.
YARON KARL
This mural, showing various aspects of Jewish women, marks the Alisa Flatow wing of the
Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey. YARON KARL
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The girls are wonderful girls, but when they came
upstairs to the wing I have never seen them
carry themselves with as much dignity and respect.
And right away they were hooked.
The mural had been hanging since the school
year began, but it had been covered. The girls did
not know what lay beneath the swaddling. Every
day, they walked by, and saw a wall with a big cover.
They had no idea what was underneath, Ms. Zucker
said. Then they were all sitting on the floor there
are 160 girls and all of a sudden the sheet came
off, and all of a sudden there was a collective she
made the sound of a great gasp, the sound of awe. It
was so incredibly moving.
You could have heard a pin drop, Ms. Mermel-
stein agreed.
The mural, created by Rockland County artist
Leah Chamish, shows women in many situations.
Each woman is a role model. We have Sarah in front
of her tent, and Miriam singing with the women
after the parting of the Red Sea, Ms. Zucker said.
We have Deborah judging, sitting under the tree;
a mother and daughter lighting Shabbes candles
together, some modern Israeli soldiers. In the cen-
ter there is a picture of women davening at the Kotel.
Each one symbolizes a different quality of Alisas.
And then in the bottom frame there is a picture
of YNJ girls learning Torah. You can tell by the class-
room that its YNJ.
The girls figured out who all the women are. And
the end, I pointed to the last one, and I said Girls,
who is this? And they said This is us.
The idea is beauty, and the mural is breathtak-
ingly beautiful, and the lessons are beautiful.
Alisa Flatows photograph is on a glass plaque,
hanging right next to the mural.
She too was a role model, Ms. Zucker said. She
had not known Alisa, but she has heard many things
about her. She had so many friends, she said. She
wanted to be friends with girls who were more reli-
gious than she was, so she could learn from them,
and she wanted to be friends with girls who were less
religious, so she could teach them. She saw herself
as part of a chain. That just hit home with the girls
so much, Ms. Zucker said.
The chain will continue to add links. Every year,
we will make a book, Ms. Zucker added. The girls
will make a book of divrei Torah and give it to the fam-
ily. That way they can see all the learning the girls are
doing to honor their legacy. It wont be just a plaque
on the wall theyll really be living Alisas legacy.
This mural, showing various aspects of Jewish women, marks the Alisa Flatow wing of the
Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey. YARON KARL
The idea is beauty,
and the mural is
breathtakingly
beautiful, and the
lessons are beautiful.
CINDY ZUCKER
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
T
he Jewish year 5775 is shap-
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for residents of the Esther and
Sam Schwartz Building (Miriam
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Center/The Gallen Institute in Clifton.
Thats because each of the 150 tenants
received a Rosh Hashanah jar of honey
made by the honeybees that live in the
hives on the roof of their building.
This was the first harvest from Bubbes
Bees, as the program was dubbed by mar-
keting and development director Caren
Speizer. It was her idea to install the hives
last spring after she learned that honeybees
are endangered. That means that the flow-
ers that depend on pollination also are at
risk of disappearing.
We have many flowers in our 13-acre
complex, and tall buildings, so I thought
this would be a great fit, though it took a
while for me to sell our board of trustees on
the idea, Ms. Speizer said.
Linda Emmer, the general manager for
apartment services for the Miriam Apart-
ments, admits that she also was skeptical
until she understood that honeybees are
vital to the ecosystem and that they sel-
dom sting.
Any remaining concerns were put to
rest when Joe Lelinho and Eric Hanan of
Bee Bold Apiaries in Essex County came to
Clifton to give a presentation. The two men
install and maintain hives for businesses,
nonprofit groups, and educational orga-
nizations throughout northern New Jersey
and New York City.
They showed us a working hive, and it
was so cool, Ms. Emmer said. To watch
it come to fruition was even more amaz-
ing. Eric came every month after install-
ing the two hives with a starter set of
bees, and after a while we could see the
white, clear honey being scraped off the
combs. The honey took on more color as
the months went on, because the bees
were collecting nectar from different sur-
rounding plant species.
Mr. Hanan took photographs every
time he came to check on the hives, and
the pictures were shown on the lobby
television screen so that residents could
watch what was going on up on the roof.
There are plans to install a camera there
permanently.
I look at the hives like apartment
houses. One of the hives had so many bees
that they added another level, Ms. Emmer
said. Before Rosh Hashanah, we collected
200 one-and-a-half ounce jars of honey,
about 60 pounds pretty good for the first
attempt. Everyone loved it when we gave
out the honey to the whole building.
Jars of Bubbes Bees honey were also
gifted to the members of the board by
now wholehearted supporters of the ven-
ture with a message wishing them a sweet
new year.
Ms. Speizer explained that the Esther
and Sam Schwartz Building was created
in 1979. It was developed as part of a pilot
program, run through the office of Housing
and Urban Development, to offer congre-
gate services geared to allowing seniors
to maintain their own homes for as long
as possible. Congregate services combine
shelter and services for the elderly, particu-
larly for those who are no longer fully capa-
ble of maintaining completely independent
lives. They offer meals, housekeeping ser-
vices, and assistance in one or more of the
activities of daily living.
Being able to provide an educational
experience for the tenants as well as reap-
ing the practical bounty of the honey, while
also doing something that benefits the
wider community, is directly in keeping
with the centers mission, Ms. Speizer said.
The recent decline in the honeybee
population has become an international
concern, and every hive has become
important. The hives on the roof of Miriam
Apartments II have not only survived, but
thrived, producing a larger harvest than ini-
tially anticipated.
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Remembering a beloved wife
Teaneck familys project lends expensive medical equipment
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
After his wife, Renee Chaya, lost her nearly
six-year battle with cancer in May 2013,
Yehiel Levy and his sons, Chaim and Ronnie,
decided to start a medical equipment free
lending project in her memory.
The Rinat Chaim Gemach gemach
is a Hebrew acronym for good deeds col-
lects and lends new and gently used medical
equipment for short term or long term use:
a power wheelchair, standard wheelchairs,
portable commodes, walkers, rollators (a
foldable walker with four wheels and a seat),
shower and tub chairs, crutches, and canes.
The gemach does not charge recipients any-
thing. The lending service has been up and
running for a few months.
The uniqueness of this gemach is that
we deliver and pick up at no cost, said Mr.
Levy, who lives in Teaneck. There is already
one medical gemach in Teaneck, but only for
wheelchairs. As far as I know, we are the only
ones who offer all these items.
Although the gemach is intended to serve
all of Bergen County and even lent a piece
of equipment to someone in New York
recently this is very much a story based
in Teaneck, and specifically at Congregation
Beth Aaron, which the Levys joined about a
year after moving to town 10 years ago.
When Renee and I were battling this ter-
rible disease, we got a lot of support from
the Beth Aaron community and Rabbi and
Chaviva Rothwachs, Mr. Levy said.
Many friends would come to help Renee
at the drop of a hat. One woman came and
sat with her every evening for hours. Another
woman would come and play board games
with her when I was away at work. All the
people in Beth Aaron who took care of her
also took care of me, making meals or making
sure I had a place to be on Shabbes.
As those difficult years wore on, Renee
Levy needed more and more pieces of medi-
cal equipment to maintain her mobility. It
was very expensive, even to rent, Mr. Levy
said. Buying it was out of the question,
because there is so much insurance paper-
work involved. So after my wife left us, we
thought this would be a good way to give
back to all these wonderful people, and even
beyond our own community.
Mr. Levy operates the gemach with trustees
Larry Kahn and Micah Kaufman, fellow Beth
Aaron members. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, the
synagogues spiritual leader, spread aware-
ness of the project among Bergen County
rabbis and named the project Rinat Chaim,
which means Joy of Life. The name also
hints at Renee Levys name, and at her sons
as well. (It was the Levys son Chaim who first
came up with the idea for the gemach.)
Rabbi Rothwachs said he was not fully
aware of the need for such a service before.
From left, Larry Kahn, Louis Karp, Moishe Singer, Yehiel Levy, Rabbi Larry Rothwachs,
and Micah Kaufman all were instrumental in creating the gemach. PAUL LUSTIGER
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Teaneck Jewish Center downsizes its rabbi
LARRY YUDELSON
T
eanecks oldest synagogue will no longer
employ a rabbi. It says it cannot afford one.
Next Shabbat, the first following Simchat
Torah, will be Rabbi Lawrence Zierlers last at
the Jewish Center of Teaneck, which was founded in 1933.
It has been a good eight years, and I have enjoyed the
opportunity to serve the Center membership and increase
its profile in the community with an array of exciting and
cutting-edge programs, Rabbi Zierler said.
Unfortunately, said Isaac Student, the congregations
president, the Center cannot afford a rabbi at this pres-
ent time, so we both agreed it would be best if he would
step down.
With this change, we have enough of an income that
we can meet all of our expenses until June, the end of the
synagogues fiscal year.
At its core, the synagogues problem is an aging mem-
bership. As Teanecks Orthodox population grew in recent
decades, the Jewish Center remained without a mechitza
separating men and women, which had become the sine
qua non of Orthodox congregations. But the congregation
also resisted the trend toward egalitarian worship; its long-
time spiritual leader, Rabbi David Feldman, was a leader
of the Union for Traditional Judaism, which formed in the
1980s to protest the Conservative movements decision
to ordain women. When Rabbi Feldman took the pulpit
in 1982, the congregation was one of the largest in the
country.
When Rabbi Zierler came to the synagogue in 2006, it
was with the understanding that he would guide the syna-
gogue toward Orthodoxy. Three years ago, after installing
a mechitza, the Jewish Center affiliated with the Orthodox
Union.
None of this was enough to create a mem-
bership renaissance, however, or to persuade
enough families to abandon existing Ortho-
dox congregations, the nearest of which is
only half a mile away.
Services will continue at the congregation.
We are going to have some people leading
Shabbes services, Mr. Student said. We have
a daily minyan.
The Teaneck Jewish Centers founders
built the shul with the vision of the syna-
gogue at the core of a community center,
complete with a swimming pool and gymna-
sium. Now, however, those facilities mostly
are rented out. Educational institutions, including a pre-
school and the Heichal Hatorah yeshiva high school, use
its classroom space. These tenants enable the congre-
gation to maintain its building, which is expensive to
maintain, Mr. Student said.
The building is serving its purpose,
which is to serve the Jewish community,
he continued. We want to make sure it
continues doing that as long as possible.
To that end, the congregation is now
talking to several Jewish groups, to arrange some sort
of partnership agreement for the future. Weve main-
tained the building for 80 years, serving the Teaneck
Jewish community, and were hoping to maintain it for
80 years to come.
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Rabbi Andr Ungar wins
prestigious AJC award
Rabbi Andr Ungar received the American Jewish
Committees Moral Courage award last month. He is
the rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake. The award was presented at
AJCs New York City gala, attended by 1,000 people,
celebrating interfaith cooperation and understanding.
The AJC also honored Stanley M. Bergman and his
family with its Global Interfaith Leadership award. Mr.
Bergman, chairman of the board and CEO of Henry
Schein, Inc., is the AJCs president.
Leslie Bergman, Stanley Bergmans brother, pre-
sented the award to Rabbi Ungar. It reads: Presented
to Rabbi Andr Ungar, exiled years ago from apart-
heid South Africa for your steadfast moral dissent. You
have called out fearlessly, decade after decade, for the
rights and dignity of all.
Rabbi David Saperstein, left, director of the
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, with
Leslie Bergman, president of the European Union
for Progressive Judaism, and Rabbi Andr Ungar.
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Days of miracles and wonders
R
ecently, officials in the Repub-
lic of Belarus gave a fancy
reception, complete with
marching band, to Israeli
chef Gil Hovav. He is the great grandson
of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who was born in
1858 in the village of Luzhki in what is now
Belarus and was then the Russian prov-
ince of Vilnius. Its hard to know what Ben
Yehuda born Eliezer Perlman would
have made of the fuss made by Belarusians
eager to claim him as their own. He was,
after all, a staunch Zionist and Hebrew
nationalist. Even before he moved to eretz
Yisrael at the age of 23 and embarked on
his project to revive the Hebrew language,
he had escaped from home, first to study
in what is now Latvia, and then to Paris to
study at the Sorbonne.
Its easier to imagine, however, how
Eliezer Ben Yehuda would have greeted
todays world of internet and smart
phones. It is a world in which Hebrew,
while not the largest and most popular
of languages, coexists easily with English
and Russian and Chinese and Spanish.
You can download a Hebrew keyboard
for your phone as easily as one in Cyrillic
or Chinese. You can navigate seamlessly
between a Wikipedia page in English and
its Hebrew version which, depending on
the initiative of the editor of the Hebrew
Wikipedia page, might have more infor-
mation. (While the Hebrew entry for Pres-
ident Ulysses S. Grant, to take one random
example, is considerably shorter than the
English entry, the Hebrew entry for Knes-
set Member Ruth Calderon has extra, valu-
able information.)
That both President Grant and MK
Calderon coexist within one encyclopedia
is itself a sign of walls breaking down. Once
you had to turn to the Jewish Encyclopedia
or the Encyclopedia Judaica to research
topics of Jewish but not general inter-
est. But Wikipedia is some dozens of times
larger than the Encyclopedia Britannica,
so there is room for Jews amid the politi-
cians. Hebrew ranks 39th among Wikipe-
dia languages in terms of the number of
articles fewer than Arabic, Esperanto,
and Lithuanian, but more than Croatian,
Estonian, and Latin. Belorussian ranks
only 57th on the list.
Its easy to take this for granted. But a
generation ago, the Hebrew language was
banned in the Soviet Union. Today, Israe-
lis and Arabs quietly cooperate on the
committees that work out how the Inter-
net displays right-to-left languages.
Its not clear whether our local Jewish
schools are taking proper advantage of
the resource that is Hebrew Wikipedia.
The Hebrew entry on Derek Jeter is only
four paragraphs long but those are four
paragraphs that will be interesting to base-
ball-loving students. (They also present a
challenge worthy of Eliezer Ben Yehuda:
Apparently Hebrew does not yet have a
word for shortstop.)
Of course, we must add the tired caveats
that anyone can edit Wikipedia, that it may
contain malicious errors, and so forth. A
more professional encyclopedia might
not have such thorough coverage of popu-
lar culture but then it might not contain
an entry on MK Calderon either.
And sometimes Wikipedias failures can
provide an amusement of their own.
Take the entry for Eliezer Ben Yehuda,
which begins: Eliezer Ben Yehuda was
a Litvak lexicographer and newspaper
editor.
At least, thats how it begins as of this
writing. By the time you read this, the
Belarusians may have claimed him as
their own. LY
KEEPING THE FAITH
The luckiest
people are
the pols
W
e are in the final leg of Election
2014. The airwaves are filled with
political commercials, and our
mailboxes virtual and real are
filled with campaign literature.
Barbra Streisand got it wrong. The luckiest
people in the world are our politicians and gov-
ernment officials, because they are not subject to
Jewish law. If they were, they would have trouble
getting through a single day.
Consider, for example, how many items on the
For the sin of litany we ran through on Yom Kip-
pur are ones politicians and government officials
violate with abandon.
Several come quickly to mind: For the sin we
committed against You by utterance of the lips;
in speech; by deliberate lying; by slander; by
ridicule. We can also throw in by hasty condem-
nation, something
of which members
of any congressional
committee are guilty
on a routine basis,
as are governmental
heads throughout the
West who were quick
to condemn Israel for
bombing Hamas, and
are now themselves
bombing ISIS. Then
there is by deliber-
ate deceit; [and] by
wronging our neighbor by misrepresenting his
or her record.
Here is a completely made-up campaign sce-
nario to illustrate the point.
A candidates commercial opens by showing us
a family collecting food from a local charity. The
narrator informs us that nearly 15 percent of fami-
lies in the area live below the poverty line. Most
of the family breadwinners work, but only for
the minimum wage. The minimum wage doesnt
allow them to feed their families. Yet the incum-
bent voted against an increase in the minimum
wage three times in one year alone.
Every word in the commercial is truebut not
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple
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Taking advantage of what we have
W
e are now hal f way
through the holidays
that mark the month of
Tishrei, making the most
intense, most family- and food- and shul-
filled time of the Jewish year. (And our
calendar is never short of intense, family-,
food- and shul-filled intervals.)
Soon the year will start in earnest; soon
the sukkot will be down, challot will be
loaf-shaped again, and the Torah scrolls
will change their white covers for their
richly colored rest-of-the-year mantles.
The years relentless march toward winter
will resume.
This community, though, has not taken
any time off. Right here and right now, our
impressive intellectual appetites are on
display, as well as our equally impressive
ability to feed them with high-level schol-
ars and speakers.
Some of this is reflected in our pages this
week. Ruth Calderon, the liberal talmudist
and member of the Israeli Knesset who will
be speaking at Congregation Rinat Yisrael,
is, to be blunt, a major big deal, and so is
the fact that she has been invited by Rinat.
She personifies the values of Jewish text
study, of the way that the desire to learn,
to engage with text, to dig deeply into the
words, to search them for meaning, to find
meaning in tradition while translating it
into the modern world, seems embedded
in our genes. Rinat Yisrael is an Orthodox
shul; its invitation to her is both gracious
and open-minded.
Dr. Adolfo Roitman, who made aliyah
from Argentina and has spent the last 20
years holding the key to the room that
houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, will talk
about the new understanding of Second
Temple Judaism that amazing find has
given us. Two local Conservative syna-
gogues, the Glen Rock Jewish Center and
Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn, are
working together to host him. And Dr.
Jon Greenberg of Teaneck will continue
to offer new insights into what seemingly
indecipherable botanic images and meta-
phors in our texts would have meant in
their own time.
And thats just skimming the surface.
There are so many ongoing programs
that we couldnt begin to list them, and
we know that new ones start all the time.
Among many other things, the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey has
announced its new adult education series,
An Affair of the Heart: Intimate Relation-
ships and God, set to start with a fascinat-
ing panel discussion, featuring four smart
local rabbis, on Thursday, October 30,
at 7:30 in the evening. Well have more
details next week.
We hope that among your goals for the
new year we have just started is to take
advantage of some of these programs,
to learn more, and to grow from it. The
opportunity is right here. Use it! JP
Shammai
Engelmayer
KEEPING THE FAITH
The luckiest
people are
the pols
W
e are in the final leg of Election
2014. The airwaves are filled with
political commercials, and our
mailboxes virtual and real are
filled with campaign literature.
Barbra Streisand got it wrong. The luckiest
people in the world are our politicians and gov-
ernment officials, because they are not subject to
Jewish law. If they were, they would have trouble
getting through a single day.
Consider, for example, how many items on the
For the sin of litany we ran through on Yom Kip-
pur are ones politicians and government officials
violate with abandon.
Several come quickly to mind: For the sin we
committed against You by utterance of the lips;
in speech; by deliberate lying; by slander; by
ridicule. We can also throw in by hasty condem-
nation, something
of which members
of any congressional
committee are guilty
on a routine basis,
as are governmental
heads throughout the
West who were quick
to condemn Israel for
bombing Hamas, and
are now themselves
bombing ISIS. Then
there is by deliber-
ate deceit; [and] by
wronging our neighbor by misrepresenting his
or her record.
Here is a completely made-up campaign sce-
nario to illustrate the point.
A candidates commercial opens by showing us
a family collecting food from a local charity. The
narrator informs us that nearly 15 percent of fami-
lies in the area live below the poverty line. Most
of the family breadwinners work, but only for
the minimum wage. The minimum wage doesnt
allow them to feed their families. Yet the incum-
bent voted against an increase in the minimum
wage three times in one year alone.
Every word in the commercial is truebut not
Op-Ed
the whole truth. The incumbent, in fact, voted at least four
times since taking office to raise the minimum wage. In
one particular year, however, the increase was attached to
a bill that would have denied minimum wage employees
from receiving health insurance benefits. The incumbent
could not vote for such a bill.
This is a made-up example, but there are scores of real
ones airing right now, and they violate so many Jewish
laws, it is hard to know where to begin.
There is, for example, the law called motzi shem ra,
which means saying something that would put someone
else in a bad light. It also violates the laws of lashon hara
(bad speech); the words may be true, but they are being
used to convey an untruth.
Then there is the law against putting a stumbling block
before the blind (see Leviticus 19:14), which in this case
means not only deliberately withholding vital information
a voter needs to make an informed decision, but also pro-
viding information in such a way as to mislead intention-
ally. (See, for example, the commentary in Sifra to Leviti-
cus 19:14.)
Politicians and officials often put stumbling blocks in
front of each other as well, and at times they can have
serious consequences.
The current Secret Service scandal is a perfect example
of this. First, we and Congress were told that an unarmed
man who was not acting suspiciously suddenly jumped a
White House fence, ran across the lawn, but was wrestled
to the ground at the front door.
This was an uncommon lapse, the now resigned Secret
Service director, Julia Pierson, assured the House Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform. As Pierson explained it,
it was her job to brief the president whenever a security
breach occurred when the Secret Service was protecting
the First Family.
Pierson then was asked, What percentage of the time
do you inform the president that his personal security has
in any way, shape or form been breached?
A hundred percent of the time, she responded.
She was then asked, In calendar year 2014, how many
times has that happened?
Never in 2014, she said, except for one occasion, for
the September 19 incident, after the man jumped the
fence. The inference was clear: One incident in an entire
year does not a crisis make.
As it turns out, the man had a knife, so he was armed.
Two Secret Service agents recognized him on the street as
someone who tried to break into the White House once
before. He was not stopped at the front door; he got as
far as the East Room at the far end of the building. To do
so, he ran past an alarm system that had been disabled,
reportedly because it made too much noise when it was
set off.
As for the incident being an uncommon lapse in secu-
rity, the director neglected to mention that just three days
earlier, in Atlanta, an armed man with three convictions
for assault and battery was allowed into an elevator with
the president. Pierson had not briefed the president about
that incident, despite her hundred percent of the time
claim. Distorting the truth can have serious consequences
when it comes to protecting lives.
These sins are on the heads of politicians and govern-
ment officials.
There are sins on our heads, as well. For us aver-
age citizens, the key is caveat emptor let the buyer
beware. As we head down the electoral stretch, it is
not enough to watch commercials, read advertise-
ments, and listen to speeches, before deciding how
to vote. We have to do our homework. After all, acting
out of ignorance[and] presumptuously, or in error
were also on the For the sin of list.
JS-19*
Becoming unstuck
A
bird got stuck inside my house the
other week.
I had been feeling sick that day
and slid open a dining room win-
dow that had a missing screen.
Oops.
After much shrieking on my part, and shrieky
tweeting on the birds, I finally lured it into a
bedroom, where I had opened wide another
unscreened window, and quickly shut the door.
Eventually, after I hesitantly peeked in a couple
of times only to see the bird flying frantically
back and forth across the room, it finally found
its way through the window and out of my house for good.
The next day, after taking a break from saying, Hey,
remember that time there was a bird flying around in our
house? and once my nerves were calm, I started to imagine
how the bird must have felt being stuck inside some mysteri-
ous structure with no point of escape. Upstairs, downstairs,
this room, that room, no way out, no way out! Worst. Night-
mare. Ever.
No one likes to feel stuck. Such is one theme, as I see it, of
Sukkot.
Were instructed on Sukkot to build temporary huts to com-
memorate those set up by the Jews traveling through the des-
ert, as well as to give a nod to the protective cloud that jour-
neyed alongside them. These little homes are designed so that
they are solid enough to house and protect a person, but they
are made to be temporary. In constructing a sukkah, were
instructed to build a roof so that there is more shade than sun,
but there also is enough open space to see some stars.
I view the sukkah in this way, as a protective entity where
we can eat (and where some people sleep), but also as some-
thing that is assembled and dismantled at the very least within
the span of eight days. Its like a camping trip, in a way; its not
just about building the tent and living in it, but also about
how we feel after versus before, when our trip comes to an
end. We are transformed. If Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
are about spiritual renewal through prayer, Sukkot is a way to
show this physically, by moving our location in these tem-
porary huts. When we enter the sukkah and then go out again,
we become unstuck from where we were before, and we have
the opportunity to start again elsewhere. We are freed from
one reality and can thus reinvent ourselves in a new spiritual
spacethis is shown symbolically via the building, living in,
and dismantling of the sukkah.
I wonder if that bird felt any different after being stuck
inside my house. Did it reinvent itself, too? Was it some-
how transformed once it had found the way back to its
new home outside?
I like that ideafinding the way back to
its new home, a new selfjust like a person
reinventing himself from the High Holidays,
through Sukkot, and out the other end as a
new, fresh-eyed being. I find it appropriate that
the holiday occurs in autumn, a time of change,
when the leaves turn from their classic green
to yellow, red, orange, and brownthe golden
tones of a sunset (which is yet another transfor-
mation in itself ).
And yet my most transformative moment
occurred not in autumn, nor in a sukkah, but
under a clear night sky in the summer on an ACHVA Israel trip
between 10th and 11th grades. We had a two-day hiking adven-
ture in the desert, resting overnight under the stars. Under
this wide sky I felt unstuck, freed, experiencing a feeling of
protection that far trumped any other time in my life.
I suppose, despite it being summer and we being out in
the open, the desert hike offered something similar to the
themes of Sukkotbecoming unstuck, transformation in that
through it we were changed, not just from that night under
the stars but from the journey of climbing over boulders and
up steep cliffs on our way to the air-conditioned buses on the
other side. Our dehydrated selves returned to civilization,
where our thirst was quenched and we could see the world
through fresh eyes. (Especially in my case my counselor
made me drink two liters of water right before going on a 2.5-
hour bus ride. That was fun and eye-opening.)
I guess my takeaway message is this: Now is the time to
transform ourselvesto take the spiritual pledges from Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur to change, and then to take action
practically and physically, or what-
ever the case may be.
Second takeaway message: Its
really important to fix your win-
dow screens. Now that Ive said
that, I need to change my ways in
practice, and carry out that which
I have pledged.
Alternatively, I can turn my
house into an aviary. See, there
you have ittransformation at
its best.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor
in Teaneck whose work has focused
primarily on psychiatry, mental
health, and the book publishing
industry. More information is
available at www.denacroog.com.
Dena
Croog
If Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur are
about spiritual renewal
through prayer, Sukkot
is a way to show this
physically, by moving
our location in these
temporary huts.
Opinion
JS-20*
Time to move on
A
s the director of a proudly
Zionist organization, it isnt
often I can say that I agree
with the Palestinian Author-
itys anti-Semitic, terrorism-sponsoring,
Holocaust-denying, opposition-squash-
ing dictator Mahmoud Abbas.
Indeed, his genocide speech, as
Abbass UN speech on erev Rosh Hasha-
nah has come to be known in Israel, was
replete with stunning fabrications and
age-old libels.
Yet his ultimate assessment of the pros-
pects for future negotiations between
the PA and Israel is one I cant help
but embrace. He said, [I]t is no longer
acceptable, nor possible, to repeat meth-
ods that have proven futile, or to con-
tinue with approaches that have repeat-
edly failed and require comprehensive
review and radical correction.
He is right. We must make a change.
It is long past time for Israel and its
supporters to wake from the 21 year
dream of a negotiated peace with Pales-
tinian Arabs. Breaking up is hard to do,
but how often can Israel get used and
abused and still believe the relationship
can work? The PA no longer tries to hide
its rejection of a negotiated peace with
Israel. Replete with deplor-
able lies, threats, and an
embrace of unilateralism,
Abbass speech was noth-
ing less than a declaration
of diplomatic war on Israel.
Not that we should be sur-
prised. Even with the ter-
rorist group Hamass serial
attacks and crimes this sum-
mer, including public execu-
tions that would make their
ISIS brethren proud, Abbas
maintained his unity coalition, as he
emphasized again last week.
So why continue to pretend that Abbas
is a moderate? Why continue to reward
(and generously fund) Israels sworn ene-
mies? We need to close this chapter and
readopt our former policy of not negoti-
ating with terrorists and add a policy
of not relabeling terrorists as moderates,
just so we can negotiate with them.
In case, as in the past, we were slow
to get the message, Abbas made sure to
repeat it in various ways.
First, Abbas said that his goal is to rec-
tify the historic injustice inflicted on the
Palestinian people in Al-Nakba of 1948.
In other words, he seeks to rectify
the founding of Israel alto-
gether. This position has
long been reflected in the
PAs actions and words
from its rejectionist charter,
to its maps and textbooks
showing all of Israel as Arab
land, to its outright refusal,
sans counter-offer, to accept
Israeli offers in 2000 and
2008. Abbas once again let
us know that his goal is not
Palestinian Arab statehood.
He aims to eliminate Jewish Israel.
Second, Abbas publicly discarded the
mantle of moderation. Throughout his
speech, Abbas justified violence and
extremism, armed resistance and the
traditions of our national struggle i.e.,
terrorism and military attacks on Israeli
civilians. Can we finally face it ? Hes just
not that into us existing.
Finally, Abbas once again embraced
his true leadership role, as commander
in chief of the diplomatic war against
Israel. Time and again he reaffirmed the
PAs embrace of Big Lie tactics, with
outrageous claims of Israeli aggression,
war crimes, apartheid, and genocide. In
attempting to achieve a state unilaterally,
Palestinian Arabs count on rampant anti-
Semitism and anti-Zionism to bolster
their efforts. The PA is doubling down on
defamation as diplomacy.
Supporters of ongoing peace talks
consistently excuse this type of repug-
nant behavior in order stay in the rela-
tionship. They advocate ongoing fund-
ing of the PA, knowing much foreign aid
directly supports terrorism and graft.
And they seek to justify Arab violence
creatively rather than to put the blame
where it belongs. Incredibly, there were
Israeli MKs who bemoaned the delays
the speech would cause, rather than its
hateful content. Better to replay the Pal-
estinian Arab narrative of nonsense than
face the hard reality, that the ongoing
war to destroy Israel is the ideological
and tactical goal of the Palestinian Arab
leaders.
Refusing to recognize this makes it all
the more likely the abuse will continue. We
see this with the ever more strident and
violent anti-Semitism, spouting the same
lies as Abbas, now seen everywhere from
European capitals to American college
campuses. We cannot defend our interests
vigorously while affirming the legitimacy
of those who work to destroy us.
Laura
Fein
An Americans Yom Kippur in Israel
A
man of my age I am just a few
months short of 88 does not
like changes.
We like to be in familiar
places, doing familiar things with familiar
people. This tendency also applies to the
marking of Jewish holidays. I like to be in
a familiar synagogue, hearing the voices of
familiar clergy, singing familiar melodies
and hearing the sound of a familiar shofar.
Back in the 1930s, when Yom Kippur
rolled around, my father would take me to
the New Temple of Brno in Czechoslovakia,
where we sat in a pew that was completely
occupied by family members male family
members, of course. Mother, aunts and sun-
dry female cousins all were relegated to the
balcony. My father was one of 13 siblings,
so there was no shortage of uncles, aunts,
cousins and in-laws to occupy a consider-
able portion of the temple.
For a small child the services were pure
agony. I was handed a heavy prayer book
and was invited to follow along. Because
I was going to the school run by the Jew-
ish community in Brno, I started learning
Hebrew in kindergarten. But even when I
was 8 years old, and in third grade, I could
not read fast enough to keep up. Also, the
prayer book was designed to be used for
all occasions and holidays, so there were
constant instructions to add this for Suc-
coth or delete this on
Shabbat. And to make these
instructions more challeng-
ing, they were not in German
or Czech, languages I knew.
Instead, they were printed
using Hebrew letters but actu-
ally were in Yiddish. Each
member of the congregation
was obliged to bring his own
siddur. So, once I was lost in
the Hebrew text, I had to con-
fess that fact to my father, who
would guide me to the right
place in the book. I always felt terribly guilty
when I had to do this, as if I had offended
God by not paying attention.
By the time I was 10 years old, perhaps to
make my visits to the synagogue pleasanter,
I volunteered to sing in the choir and was
happily accepted. Now I only had to read the
music pages, and I always knew where we
were during the service. Alas, that lasted only
two years, until right after the High Holiday in
1940. That was when the Nazis permanently
closed our beautiful and familiar shul.
Some 15 years of chaos, turmoil, and
instability followed, as our family engi-
neered its escape from Europe, arrived in
the United States, and moved several times
while trying to establish a foothold. Also,
during these years, I served
in the United States navy,
went to college, and started
a career. Not surprisingly, I
found myself in a different
synagogue each year, mark-
ing the High Holidays in new
surroundings, led by a great
variety of rabbis and cantors.
It wasnt until I was married
and settled in New Jersey that
once again I began to enjoy
the warm familiar environ-
ment of the same congrega-
tion year after year.
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Val-
ley in Woodcliff Lake was incorporated in
1929 and grew to become one of the larg-
est congregations in the state. By 1966,
when we joined, it already was under the
leadership of the rabbi, cantor, and school
principal who guided it for nearly half a
century. Now, once again, each Yom Kip-
pur, I was surrounded by familiar things.
When you arrived, a supply of kippot, tal-
litot, and prayer books awaited you. The
whole congregation used the same prayer
book; should you lose your place or allow
your mind to wonder, the rabbi would guide
you gently back to the right page. The book
had English text alongside the Hebrew one,
so you knew not just that you were praying
but what you were praying. For the next 57
years, Temple Emanuel was my home on
Yom Kippur.
Until this year.
This year, my sabra wife convinced me
that we should travel to Israel a few days
after Rosh Hashanah and spend the Day of
Atonement in Israel. I asked Israeli friends
and relatives: What does a practicing but
non-Orthodox Jew do on Yom Kippur in
Israel? The first thing they asked: Will
you fast? Of course, I will fast! I have done
so since I was 12 years old even in the
navy. Well, there must be a temple near
you in Rishon although it is most likely
Orthodox.
Suddenly I had this sinking feeling that I
will, once again, have to revert to the con-
ditions of the Brno synagogue, with my
wife hidden away somewhere, everyone
reading from a different book, and a can-
tor storming through the service under the
assumption that every one can follow the
text. No, I dont think we want to do that,
I responded. Well, than all you can do is
stay at home, read, study, rest, go for a walk
or visit neighbors I was told. I was deeply
disappointed by this choice. What kind of a
way was this to spend Yom Kippur?
Charles
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First, there was the absolute quiet that descended
on the city the streets and highways were virtually
empty of all traffic, the television and radio stations
were mute, the phones stopped ringing, and I faced
the prospect of spending the day without touching
food, drink, and the computer. With this uncommon
silence came a chance to meditate, to reflect, and
to exercise some much- needed self-examination. In
many ways, the day became an unexpected pseudo-
religious experience. This had, in fact to my sur-
prise, become a quite meaningful Day of Atonement.
When the day of fasting ended and things returned
to their normal state, I realized that I had not pined
for the usual synagogue service, missed the camara-
derie of a congregation, or searched for the voices of
a cantor or a rabbi. The only thing I truly missed was
the sound of the shofar.
Last week, after Prime Minister Netanyahu met
President Obama to discuss the dramatic changes
and threats in the region, we were witness to the
narrowness of thought the blind commitment to the
peace process can induce. Rather than respond
with substance to the larger issues, Obama issued
a knee-jerk condemnation of Israel because Jerusa-
lems municipal government issued building permits
for new apartments. (Never mind that, as Netanyahu
correctly responded, it is plainly anti-Semitic to bar
Jews from moving to Jerusalem.) Abbas already had
announced his abandonment of future negotiations
and rededicated his efforts to attack Israel diplomati-
cally and economically. Yet Obama chose to pretend
that the show can go on.
Obamas motives are a subject for separate con-
sideration. But what of the majority of the Ameri-
can pro-Israel community, represented by our major
Jewish organizations, who for more than 20 years
have supported fruitless rounds of negotiations and
endless one-sided compromise, while threats to Jews
and Israel only increase? Will they continue to treat
the PLO, the PA, Fatah, and Abbas himself as mod-
erates and peace partners, overlooking their ven-
omous words and evil deeds? Or will they break with
the past and set new policies grounded in the truth?
Lets hope they trust Abbas one last time. Take
him at his word. And break with the PA once and
for all.
Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ. She
welcomes your feedback at www.ZOA-NJ.org, www.
facebook.com/ZOA-NJ, and lfein@zoa.org.
This year, my sabra
wife convinced me
that we should travel
to Israel a few days
after Rosh Hashanah
and spend the Day
of Atonement
in Israel.
JOANNE PALMER
O
ften its easy to pick out a non-
Jewish candidate trawling for
Jewish votes.
Hell show up at a shul wear-
ing a fancy crocheted kippah with his
name spelled out along the edge; itll be
pinned to cover the bald spot precisely.
(Really, if youre going to wear one, you
might as well benefit from it, right?)
Hell throw out Yiddishisms with aban-
don mishuganeh here, mensch there, oy,
oy everywhere. Hell talk about getting a
bagel with a schmear. (Do you know any
Jew who has ever eaten one of those? Me
neither.)
In order to show his deep, lifelong sense
of connection to the Jewish community,
hell pander so hard it must make his teeth
hurt.
But if you are looking for an actual
Judeophile, a non-Jew whose connection
to the Jewish world is longstanding, emo-
tional, spiritual, intellectual, and clearly
real, you would have to direct your gaze in
another direction.
Youd find yourself looking at Cory
Booker New Jerseys junior U.S. senator
who visited the Jewish Standards offices
last week.
Instead of flinging out Yiddish mala-
propisms, hell quote from the machzor,
in Hebrew; hell cite biblical chapter and
verse, again in Hebrew, and hell launch
into a spirited explanation of why he
insisted on being a co-president rather
than the only president of Oxfords
LChaim Society.
But before we get to Mr. Bookers ties to
the Jewish world, lets explore his connec-
tions to Bergen County.
Cory Bookers first memories come
from here; he was born in Washington,
D.C. in 1969, but he moved to Harrington
Park when he was just a few months old.
His was one of a very few African-Ameri-
can families around.
From the time he was an infant, Mr.
Booker lived through history.
His father, Cary, went to Fisk University,
and his mother, Carolyn, to North Carolina
Central University; both are historically
black colleges. Both were among the first
black people hired by IBM (his mother in
human resources and his father in sales).
They were both civil rights activists Caro-
lyn Booker, who was a schoolteacher dur-
ing the first March on Washington in 1963,
used her entire summer vacation to help
organize it, her son said.)
They also were devoted parents who
wanted to bring up their family which
includes an older son, Cary Jr. in a nice
house in the suburbs. Black people were
not welcome, though. My mom would
find a house in northern Bergen County;
the realtors would see that its a black fam-
ily and tell them that the house was sold,
Mr. Booker said. My parents ended up
going to the Fair Housing Council of North-
ern New Jersey. The council would send
out a white couple, who would pretend
to be interested in the house. It was an
amazing story, Mr. Booker said. They
found a house in Harrington Park 123
Norma Road and a test couple, who was
white, bid on it. And then, on the day of
the closing, the white couple didnt show,
but my parents did. They brought a law-
yer a volunteer who by the way was
Jewish.
The real estate agent was so angry that
he punched the lawyer and set his dog on
my dad. (The dog was there because the
real estate agent worked at home; it was his
familys dog.) A melee breaks out. Eventu-
ally, the agent breaks down and starts cry-
ing. He said that he was afraid to sell them
the house he was pressured not to sell
to them, and he told them Youll ruin the
town if you move in. He was afraid of the
phenomenon called white flight.
My joke is that every time my dad told
the story, the dog got bigger, Mr. Booker
added.
The family that owned the house
turned out to be a good family, and they
were very apologetic. They sold the house
to my parents.
After that dramatic beginning, the fam-
ily settled in, eventually moving to a bigger
house in town. It was the best commu-
nity you could imagine, Mr. Booker said.
It was incredibly nurturing.
Its not as if people did not notice that
he didnt look exactly like them. Because
the only exposure most of his neighbors
had to black culture was what they saw on
television, a lot of good kids had warped
ideas of African Americans, Mr. Booker
said. If I had a dollar for every time some-
one asked to touch my hair
We were living in an age where the
school system was not diverse.
Life, he saw, was complicated. Grow-
ing up, you see the beauty of the town,
the goodness of the people class moth-
ers, soccer coaches and also lots of inci-
dents that remind you that you are differ-
ent. Whenever we drove over the bridge
to Washington Heights, my brother and I
would be pulled over by the police, who
assumed we were there to buy drugs.
We still dont live in an equal world.
Cory and Cary Booker went to Northern
Valley Regional High School at Old Tap-
pan. When I go back to my home com-
munity I feel such a debt of gratitude to
Harrington Park and to Old Tappan, he
said. The teachers, the coaches. I dont
know where Id be right now if it werent
for the extraordinary love that people had
for my brother and me. We were the sons
of two working parents. I would eat at
other peoples houses; theyd watch over
us, shuttle us back and forth in carpools.
The level of goodness
I had an amazing eighth-grade teacher,
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records. That was the forum where I learned to social-
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where I learned to deal with rejection. (Yes, the invita-
tion and the rejection were direct cause and effect, he
confirmed.)
Another of his favorite memories is the first record
he ever bought for himself, when he rode his bicycle to
Flipside Records in neighboring Closter. I am embar-
rassed to say it was a Supertramp album, Breakfast in
America, he laughed.
Mr. Bookers father owned a restaurant on Teaneck
Road in Teaneck when his older son was in middle
school. He called it Cabs Kitchen it was named after
the initials of his sons, Cory Anthony and Cary Alfred.
I am a vegetarian now, but it had the best ribs I ever
tasted, Mr. Booker said. It was a great experience for
me. Everyone in America should have to wait tables,
should have a direct service job. The skills he learned
ranged from cleaning chicken to meeting lots of folks
from all different kinds of backgrounds.
Mr. Bookers father died almost exactly a year ago, just
two days before Mr. Booker won his race for New Jer-
seys senate seat. His mother just moved to Las Vegas,
where she has family.
I had a Norman Rockwell childhood, he said. It is
hard for me to communicate to kids how blessed in this
world they are to grow up in such a loving and nurtur-
ing place.
When he was asked if New Jerseys unique home rule
system, which grants unprecedented autonomy to the
states many small towns, makes it easier for them to
remain tight-knit, the conversation took a brief detour
into public policy.
No, it doesnt, he said heatedly. We have to pay too
many taxes. You can preserve the states character and
culture and still have a lot more shared services, which
would greatly reduce the cost of government. If one
police department can serve both the south Bronx and
the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surely one depart-
ment could serve more than one culturally similar small
Bergen County town. And he knows that regionalized
schools work because he got such a good education at
Northern Valley, which is one of two high schools in a
regionalized system, he added.
After Mr. Booker graduated from Northern Valley
Old Tappan, he went to Stanford University, where he
earned both an undergraduate and a masters degree.
Then he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar.
It was there that he discovered Judaism.
Its hard to understand love, Mr. Booker said. Can
you understand why you fell in love with your first boy-
friend? Why you were attracted to him? I always ask my
mom why she fell in love with my dad. My dad said that
Senator Cory Booker and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who first met at Oxford, have remained close friends.
Cory Booker was a star in both football and aca-
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for him it was luck and his good fortune.
With me, with Judaism, it was a love story.
It is important to note here that Mr. Booker is not Jew-
ish. He did not convert to Judaism, nor will he. But that
does not detract in any way from his love for it, or from
his deep understanding of it. He grew up going to the
Centennial AME church in Closter, just a little down
Closter Dock Road from Flipside Records, and now he
belongs to a Baptist church in Newark, where he lives,
and where he was mayor from 2006 until last year. I am
a Christian who believes that we need to have a world
that exalts the highest of human values, and Judaism is
a foundational faith. Before Christianity and Islam there
were Moses and the Torah.
My faith is deepened and enriched by Judaism.
Because of my studies of Judaism I have studied Hindu-
ism and I have begun studying Islam. It has made me a
much better Christian.
So how did he fall in love with Judaism?
He had met many Jews as he grew up.I went to my
share of bar mitzvahs, but I had never studied Juda-
ism from its spiritual and intellectual foundation, and I
never was introduced to the faith, he said. But I get to
Oxford, Im a 22-year-old kid, and during my first week a
young lady invites me to have dinner with her. At the last
second, she writes me a note about where to meet her.
She says, Meet me at the LChaim
Society. Mimicking himself, Mr.
Booker pronounces it Le-Chaym, as if
it rhymes with Auntie Mame. I asked
how to pronounce it, and finally
someone told me, he said ruefully.
I remember stumbling around to
find this building it was on the third
floor and I finally get to the door, I
swing it open, and I walk in. What
he saw was entirely alien to him.
All I could think of was a movie my
mother had taken me to see. Yentl.
He saw men in long coats and black
hats, and really bad tailoring. The
coats all had strings hanging out of
them.
It was one of those moments
when everything stops, he contin-
ued. Everyone looks at you, and I
can read everyones mind. Theyre
all thinking what is this large black
guy doing here?
And Im thinking that too.
And then a very frum-looking
woman comes over to me, and says
Are you Cory Booker? And I say yes, and she says, Im
sorry. The woman I was supposed to meet had stood
me up, and this woman was giving me that message. So
I turn to leave, and then she asked me the question that
changed my life. She said, Would you stay for dinner?
Abraham was said to be favored by God because he
kept his tent open on all sides. My favorite Torah image
is when Abraham was sitting there, in pain, because he
had just been circumcised, and God hadnt blessed him
yet. And then three strangers come, and despite his pain
he gets up and runs to greet them. And then he gets his
blessing.
That kind of goodness chessed, Mr. Booker called it
was what he felt emanating from that young woman.
That was Debbie Boteach, then 18 or 19 years old, the
wife of the head of the LChaim Society, Rabbi Shmu-
ley Boteach. (The LChaim Society is Oxfords Chabad
house.)
She said come sit with us, so I ended up at the only
empty seat at any table. It had been hers. She gave me
her seat.
I happened to be sitting next to Shmuley, the most
meshugah rabbi in America. Hes 25, Im 22. We start
talking. We talk about tolerance. Both of us had written
and talked about how tolerance is cynical. It says I will
stomach your right to be different, and if you vanish off
As mayor of Newark,
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the face of the earth I wont care.
It shouldnt be tolerance. It should be love. Love is
a recognition that I need you, that we can learn from
each other, that your difference makes me better. We
are talking about this common value, and by the end
of the night Im carrying the Torah, and dancing with
it. I had a kippah on.
It was Simchat Torah, a holiday Id never heard of.
The next day my love was tested. I sat down with
some friends one Jewish, one not and I said I was
blown away with joy. I had met someone who shared
my values about tolerance and goodness and mercy,
who understood my feelings about tolerance ver-
sus love. They said Do you know that you were in a
Chabad house? Did you know that they are right-wing
wackos? They castigated me for socializing with them.
That did not resonate with what I had experi-
enced, so I decided to confront the rabbi. That led to
one of the more interesting conversations of my life.
We talked for a good two hours imagine, this was a
rabbi on Simchat Torah! I realized that he and I did not
agree on everything.
I told him a story about Alex Haley and Malcolm
X. The two of them were on a subway together, and
a white, conservatively dressed businessman walked
over to Malcolm and said, Mr. X, I do not agree with
everything you say, but I like you and I respect your
style. Malcolm stood up, and everyone got scared.
They all held their breath. And then Malcolm said,
There are no two people who agree on everything.
So we agreed that most people think that love is
just good feelings, just affection, but love really neces-
sitates knowledge. How can you love someone you
dont really know? We said that the tragedy of man
is that man knows so little of man. So we said, Why
dont we do an experiment in love? So we agreed
to exchange books from each others culture. That
started an incredible odyssey into Judaism for me.
The first book I gave him was Malcolm Xs auto-
biography, and he gave me Night by Elie Wiesel. I
started devouring this stuff. When I started reading
about Hillel and Maimonides, great pluralistic think-
ers, that just sent me inevitably to the Torah.
Parallel to that study was my discovering the
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majesty of Shabbat, which the three Abrahamic cul-
tures share. It is meant to be a house of prayer for many
nations. But most of us dont stop, dont slow down.
Sitting around a Shabbat table was so powerful for
me that I started bringing friends to the Chabad house,
not only Jewish friends but also Christians and Mus-
lims. By the time my first year was over, I was not only
studying Torah. The LChaim Society had mushroomed
to become the second largest society by membership
at Oxford. We were bringing in international speakers,
often doing it in conjunction with the Oxford Union.
At the end of that year, Shmuley comes to me, and
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and I want you to be president of this organization. I
said, I knew you were crazy before, but now I know
youre meshugah. I said no.
So we argued, and I said that I would do it only if
there were a Jewish co-president. So I became the first
goy in the history of the world to be co-president of a
Chabad house.
That led to a wonderful second year.
Shmuley did not proselytize, he continued. It is
not a proselytizing faith. The aim was not to make me
a Jew. The Torah is a book of ethics.
There are two ethical pillars, Mr. Booker said. The
first value is the one that Abraham showed, sitting in
his tent, when the three angels came up to him. That
was goodness, kindness, and mercy.
And then, what does he do but argue? As soon as
he has seen off the angels, God told Abraham about
the impending destruction of Sodom, and Abraham
argued with God, trying to save the city. The audac-
ity! Mr. Booker said. The chutzpah!
So the second pillar is justice. No matter what, no
matter who, you stand up and fight for justice.
Yom Kippur is the anniversary of the second time
Moses comes down from the mountain. Mount Sinai,
that is, with the tablets God had given him. The first
time he comes down, he sees the people with the
Golden Calf. Moses says to God, If you destroy these
people, erase me from this book. I dont want any part
of you. Again, someone argued with God and won.
A side anecdote, Mr. Booker added. They kept
the broken tablets with the whole ones in the ark of
the covenant. You gotta have everything, the good, the
bad, the ugly, the shameful.
Thats true in life, and in American history. Slavery,
the subjugation of women, the horrendous killing and
murder of Native Americans, Abu Ghraib it takes all
that to make a whole.
Mr. Booker returned to his friendship with Rabbi
Boteach. I could write a dissertation about our dis-
agreements, he said. But nobody has ever written
about this. When the rebbe thats the Lubavitcher
rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson dies, I am
getting on a plane for my first visit to Israel. Shmuley
was supposed to go with me, but he diverts to New
York. He wanted to be present, to be at the funeral.
But after the rebbes death there was a power vac-
uum, and then Chabad in England turned on Shmuley.
He supported gays and lesbians, and he had non-Jewish
members. They told him to get rid of the non-Jews or
you must leave Chabad England. Rabbi Boteach did
not comply with the demands, so they turned on him,
Mr. Booker said. He said, I am not going to remove
the non-Jewish members. I was devastated, and Deb-
bie was devastated, but he was removed from Chabad.
After Oxford, Mr. Bookers next stop was law school
at Yale. But there was something missing, he said.
So I connected with a 21-year-old Chabad rabbi, and
we started a group modeled on the LChaim Society.
It started with five guys around a table, and now it has
hundreds of members. That group, which first was
called the Chai Society, became the Eliezer Society; it
is about to undergo another, not-yet-announced name
change.
It was a great experience at Yale, Mr. Booker said.
And once Chabad has you, they never let you go.
He started meeting other Chabad rabbis, and became
increasingly involved in New Jersey Jewish life once he
moved back to his home state.
Jesus was a Jew, he said. His preaching was from
Jewish ideals. For me, fundamental to my faith is
humility. There is no way that I or my faith has all the
answers. I could not have such arrogance as to believe that
in any way I have a monopoly on the truth.
My path is my own access to the divine. It has been
enriched deeply by my willingness to appreciate the awe-
someness of other faiths and other faith journeys.
Gandhi used to say Honor your incarnation. There is a
purpose to your having been born a Jew. We should explore
what that means. Being Jewish cannot be reduced to a kugel
or a chulent. People say Im a Jew because of my food and
my culture, but you can go from the Ashkenazi Jews of New
Jersey to the Sephardi Jews of Iran to the Jews of Ethiopia.
What does it really mean to be Jewish? The ideas and the
values, the ability to stand up to God when there is injustice,
to show goodness and kindness and decency to strangers
those are all Jewish ideals.
To me, this country and this world needs Judaism,
exalted through the fealty of Jews to Jewish ideals, Mr.
Booker said.
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Another obscene Israel analogy
F
or several decades now, Israels enemies have
defamed the Jewish state actively and willfully by
comparing its actions to the atrocities committed
by the worst villains in recent history.
We all know about the ludicrous and insulting parallel
drawn between Israel and the former apartheid regime in
South Africa. It was precisely that parallel that underpinned
the notorious U.N. General Assembly resolution of 1975,
which has since been rescinded, that equated Zionism with
racism.
And we know, too, of the obscene comparison between
Israel and Nazi Germany. Among those who have endorsed
this ghastly canard, which takes the Nazi Holocaust as its
starting point in order to trivialize the mass murder of 6
million Jews, is the newly elected Turkish president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, who opined at the height of the Gaza war
over the summer that Israel
was worse than Hitler.
But now theres a new
analoyand its one that
attacks Israel by using a
contemporary reference.
Appropriately for our digi-
tal age, it takes the form of
a Twitter hashtag: #JSIL.
If its not immediately
clear what that means, JSIL
is a spinoff of ISIL, refer-
ring to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the
barbaric jihadist terrorist organization (now known
simply as Islamic State) with whom we are now at
war. JSIL, meanwhile, stands for Jewish State in the
Levant.
Yes, you read that correctly. There are people out
there who are seriously equating a gang of rapists,
decapitators, slave traders, and genocidal killers with a
democratic state that takes the trouble, whenever it is
dragged into an armed conflict, of informing civilians
on the other side when and where it will be launching
an attack so that they can get themselves to safety.
Who, exactly, are the people making this analoy?
Well, its the usual crowd, and we can take somebut
not muchcomfort in that. Credit for the #JSIL hashtag
lies with the U.S.-based pro-Hamas activist Max Blu-
menthal. The son of Bill and Hillary Clintons veteran
conidante Sidney Blumenthal, young Max rivals the
worst anti-Semitic propagandists of the Soviet Union.
Over the last few years, Blumenthals anti-Israel
screeds have become progressively more outlandish.
But not content with grossly misrepresenting the Nazi
Holocaust, he now insults the thousands of Yazidi,
Christian, and Kurdish victims of Islamic State vio-
lence by asserting that Israel inhabits the same moral
universe as these murderers.
Blumenthal made the Israel-Islamic State compari-
son during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Pales-
tine, an unaccountable kangaroo court dedicated to
smearing Israel with the crime of genocide. Fittingly,
Blumenthal was flanked by the rock musician Roger
Waters and the ilm director Ken Loach as he did so.
Quite like the musical output of his band, Pink Floyd,
Waterss political interventions on Israel have gotten
more boring and predictable as he gets older. Much
the same can be said of Loach, who has continually
insisted that Israel is the cause of the anti-Semitic vio-
lence plaguing Jews in Europe, Latin America, and
elsewhere.
Why, though, should we worry about the usual
suspects when they ind a new theme to play with?
After all, theyve made the apartheid and Nazi com-
parisons, and yet Israel continues to thrive. Leading
politicians around the world have joined the chorus of
condemnation of anti-Semitism, and Hamas has only
a bruised Palestinian population to show for its efforts
to eliminate Israel. Similarly, we might say that how-
ever offensive and downright stupid the Islamic State
comparison is, it wont change a damn thing when it
comes to policy.
Regrettably, I dont think we have the luxury of com-
placency on this one. Just this week, Deutsche Welle,
the taxpayer-funded German broadcaster, published
an article on its website that cast American Jews vol-
unteering for the IDF in the same light as Muslims
from Europe and elsewhere joining the Islamic State
terrorists.
Leave aside the fact that such an equation is being
made by Germanswho really should, by now, know
better. What is more signiicant for our purposes is the
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potential impact that this equation can have on the
formulation of policy. If we rightly seek to criminalize
those among our Muslim citizens who join the Islamic
State onslaughts, we open ourselves up to the conten-
tion that foreign Jews ighting with the IDF should be
treated in the same manner. Certainly, Blumenthal
and his anti-Semitic cohorts will argue that such peo-
ple are war criminalsand what the Deutsche Welle
piece demonstrates is how easily this clumsy, morally
illiterate argument can penetrate the mainstream.
Inadvertently, the same article offers a solution to
this dilemma in its conclusion, which says, But when
former Israeli Americans return to the U.S. after their
military service, they will be treated much differently
than those who wish to return, tired of ighting with
extremist groups. The former will be welcomed and
commended and accepted by family and friends,
while the latter will likely be arrested, imprisoned,
and interrogated with little chance of returning to an
American way of life.
That is how it should be. American Jews ighting
with the IDF are ighting with an ally of the U.S. and
Western democracy. Those who join Islamic State,
on the other hand, are ighting for the destruction of
everything we stand for. We need to ensure that the
law in Europe and the United States continues to rec-
ognize this vital distinction. JNS.ORG
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Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Haaretz, and other
publications. His book, Some Of My Best Friends: A
Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism,
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disciples died in a plague. However, Rav Sherira Gaon
explains in his letter that this was a shemada, meaning
their death was due either to governmental persecu-
tion or to war. If so, this would appear to be related to
the bar Kokheva revolt, of which Rabbi Akiva was an
ardent supporter. It is reasonable to surmise that Rabbi
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brutality, these students were killed.
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currently at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
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Although it only opened its doors recently, through word of
mouth alone there has already been a lot of interest, he said.
Yehiel spent a lot of time and effort to set this up in a profes-
sional and dignified way, and I hope it will be helpful to the
community for years to come.
Another shul member, Moishe B. Singer, created the web-
site www.rinatchaimgemach.com, which people can use to
learn how to donate equipment or money, see what is avail-
able, and request loans.
Yet another Beth Aaron member, attorney Louis Karp,
donated his services to secure 501c3 not-for-profit status
for the gemach. And Izzy Salomon, also of Beth Aaron, has
offered his warehouse to store the equipment.
Mr. Kahns teenage son, Eli, is coordinating youth volun-
teers who clean and maintain the equipment. Mr. Levy and
Mr. Kaufman make most of the deliveries.
Mr. Levy said that he and Renee met in 1974 in Israel, when
both were working for Israel Aerospace Industries. She was
born in Cairo, and after the Six-Day War she migrated with her
mother, father and seven siblings to France for two years, he
said. Then they made aliya to Bat Yam.
The couple wed in 1975 and lived in the Tel Aviv suburb
of Givatayim, where Ms. Levy taught Arabic and French in
local schools. In October 2005, their son Chaims employer
moved him to the United States, and his parents followed him
to Teaneck. Ms. Levy worked at an Oradell law firm special-
izing in representing American Jews whose loved ones were
victims of terror attacks in Israel.
In December 2007 we found, to our shock, that she was
diagnosed with cancer, Mr. Levy said. We had a lot of ongo-
ing and loving support from the community, but unfortu-
nately after six years the disease caught up with my beloved.
About four months later, Chaim had the idea to form the med-
ical equipment gemach in her memory.
Remembering
FROM PAGE 15
BRIEFS
Two Israeli soldiers injured
by Hezbollah blast along
Lebanon border
An explosion near the Lebanon border on Tuesday
wounded two Israeli soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces
said. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the blast.
According to the IDF, the blast was caused by an
explosive device planted to attack its soldiers. A source
told Lebanons Daily Star that an explosive device went
off near an Israeli tank near the Al-Sendaneh area in the
Kfar Shuba hills.
Lebanese security sources told the Daily Star that Israel
launched at least 15 explosives in retaliation.
The incident comes amid growing tension along the
Israeli-Lebanese border, which is patrolled by U.N. peace-
keepers. On Sunday, IDF soldiers fired at a Lebanese cell
that was trying to infiltrate Israel. JNS.ORG
Israel takes precautions
against Ebola
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a
special meeting Monday to discuss precautions against an
Ebola outbreak in Israel.
Health Minister Yael German, Transportation and
Road Safety Minister Yisrael Katz, Deputy Interior
Minister Faina Kirshenbaum, and representatives of
the Israel Defense Forces, police, and Foreign Ministry
were at the meeting.
The countries with the highest risk of Ebola are Liberia,
Guinea, and Sierra Leone in western Africa. Accordingly,
Israel has decided to increase efforts to identify people
entering it from those countries. The foreign and health
ministries have also urged Israelis to avoid traveling to
those destinations, according to Israel Hayom.
Foreign Ministry Director-General Nissim Ben-Shetrit
said Israel has sent three mobile clinics to Ebola-affected
areas in western Africa. JNS.ORG
56 Islamic State flags discovered
in northern Israeli city
Municipal landscapers working in an industrial zone in
the northern Israeli city of Nazareth Illit discovered a torn
bag containing 56 black Islamic State flags on Tuesday.
The flags were handed over to the police and an investi-
gation has been launched, Israel Hayom reported.
Investigators suspect that the person who possessed
the flags was trying to get rid of them. In light of recent
media reports surrounding the [Islamic States] illegal sta-
tus and the illegality of possessing its symbols, it looks as
though someone decided against distributing or hanging
them, a police official told Israels Channel 2.
The Israeli Defense Ministry has outlawed membership
or any activity suggesting membership in the Sunni terror-
ist organization. JNS.ORG
Jewish World
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GABRIELLE BIRKNER
R
abbi Gil Steinlauf, who was
the rabbi of Temple Israel and
Jewish Community Center in
Ridgewood from 2001 until
he moved to Adas Israel Congregation in
Washington, D.C., in 2008, struggled for
decades with an identity that he acknowl-
edged publicly only this week.
On the Monday after Yom Kippur, Rabbi
Steinlauf, who is married and the senior
rabbi at Adas Israel, a large and historic
Conservative synagogue, announced that
he is gay.
With much pain and tears, together
with my beloved wife, I have come to
understand that I could walk my path with
the greatest strength, with the greatest
peace in my heart, with the greatest heal-
ing and wholeness, when I finally acknowl-
edged that I am a gay man, Rabbi Stein-
lauf, 45, wrote in an email to congregants.
He said that he and his wife of 20 years,
Rabbi Batya Steinlauf the director of
social justice and interfaith initiatives at
the Jewish Community Relations Council
of Greater Washington would divorce.
Even as a child, Gil Steinlauf wrote, he
recognized a difference in himself, but
he never let it define him or affect his
choice of a spouse.
I sought to marry a woman because
of a belief that this was the right thing for
me, Rabbi Steinlauf wrote. This convic-
tion was reinforced by having grown up
in a different era, when the attitudes and
counsel of adult professionals and peers
encouraged me to deny this uncertain
aspect of myself. I met and fell in love with
Batya, a wonderful woman who loved and
accepted me exactly as I am.
Ultimately, though, the dissonance
between my inside and my outside became
undeniable, then unwise, and finally intol-
erable, he said.
The Steinlaufs have three children.
A letter of support from the congre-
gations president, Arnie Podgorsky,
accompanied Rabbi Steinlaufs announce-
ment. Mr. Podgorsky said the rabbi had
the full support of the congregations lay
leadership.
Our synagogue is strong, large, and
inclusive a big tent with room and
respect for all, he wrote. Rabbi Steinlauf,
along with the rest of the clergy, will con-
tinue to advance new paths to Torah, mak-
ing Judaism and its tools for a beautiful life
more accessible for more Jews. We will
continue our diverse approaches to wor-
ship, from the traditional to the innova-
tive. At the same time, we understand that
Rabbi Steinlauf will be undergoing a chal-
lenging personal transition in the coming
months, and we extend to him patience
and a generous spirit.
Mr. Podgorsky said that Rabbi Steinlauf
shared his news with the officers of Adas
Israel earlier this fall.
We determined together that he would
see the congregation through the High
Holy Days in the customary way, and then
make his news public, Mr. Podgorskys
letter said.
Rabbi Steinlauf graduated from Princ-
eton, studied at the Pardes Institute in Jeru-
salem, and was ordained at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary in Manhattan in 1998.
Adas Israel counts many prominent
members among its approximately 1,500
family units, including the journalist Jef-
frey Goldberg. On Monday, in a post on
the Atlantics website, www.theatlantic.
com, Mr. Goldberg put Rabbi Steinlauf s
announcement in context.
Rabbi Steinlauf fell into an odd liminal
moment in history, he wrote. If he were
a 25-year-old rabbi, there would be no
drama here, no nothing, in fact, because
he would simply be a rabbi who happens
to be gay. The Conservative movement of
Judaism has changed over the past decade
or two in unimaginable ways. I have trou-
ble picturing a synagogue that wouldnt
hire a gay rabbi. On the other hand, if he
were 60 years old now, with the same iden-
tity, he most likely would have been able to
glide toward retirement, his secret intact.
A 2006 decision from the Rabbinical
Assemblys Committee on Jewish Law
and Standards paved the way for the ordi-
nation of gay rabbis and the recognition
of same-sex unions in the Conservative
movement.
In 2012, Rabbi Steinlauf officiated at the
first same-sex wedding at Adas Israel. He
wrote about that union, and about the
sanctity of same-sex love, in a column pub-
lished in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
last year.
I reject the idea that the Bible declares
that the only sacred love that can exist is
the love between a man and a woman,
he wrote. Love is queer it can never be
limited to our categorizations of roles and
gender. Love is commitment, presence,
and kindness so awesome and mysterious
that nothing in our power can contain it.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Former Ridgewood rabbi comes out as gay
Rabbi Gil Steinlauf says his announcement came with much pain and tears.
BRIEFS
Christian-Jewish group
plans major push for
immigration to Israel
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews plans to
substantially increase its efforts to increase immigration to
Israel, especially from countries of the former Soviet Union.
Eli Cohen, the former head of the Jewish Agency for Isra-
els aliyah department, will head the initiative. While formal
plans have not been announced, the IFCJ, which has in the
past worked closely with the Jewish Agency and other immi-
gration-focused Jewish organizations, has indicated that it will
likely now work on its own to increase aliyah.
I view increasing the number of new immigrants to
Israel as a Zionist project and as a central pillar of the
work of The Fellowship to support Israeli society and
assist Jews in need of help across the world, IFCJ Presi-
dent Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein said.
Founded in 1983, the IFCJ promotes understanding
between Jews and Christians. The group has raised more
than a billion dollarsmostly from Christian donorsfor Jew-
ish immigration, social programs in Israel, and aid for strug-
gling Jewish communities around the world.
More recently, the IFCJ has been involved in stepping up
aliyah from Ukraine amid the instability and conflict with
Russian-backed rebel groups, spending millions of dollars on
emergency aid and putting together flights to Israel for the
Jewish community there.
Last May, Eckstein was honored with the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committees Raoul Wallenberg
Award for his profound contribution to the Jewish peo-
ple as the head of IFCJ. JNS.ORG
Hamas official: wiping out Israel
would be easier from West Bank
If the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas gains a foothold
in the West Bank, it would be able to wipe out Israel and
establish an Islamic state in its place, senior Hamas offi-
cial Mahmoud al-Zahar recently told the Palestinian news
outlet Al-Ayyam.
[Some] have said Hamas wants to create an Islamic
emirate in Gaza. We wont do that, but we will build an
Islamic state in Palestine, all of Palestine, al-Zahar said in
a translated interview posted by Palestinian Media Watch
on Sunday.
According to al-Zahar, if Hamas could transfer what it
has or just a small part of it to the West Bank, it would be
able to settle the battle of the final promise with a speed
that no one can imagine. JNS.ORG
Work begins on final tunnel of Tel
Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed rail
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation
Minister Yisrael Katz attended a ceremony marking the
beginning of work on a massive tunnel that will be the
final project of the planned Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed
rail line, expected to be completed in 2017.
The tunnel, which will be the longest in Israel at nearly
seven miles, will run between the towns of Shaar HaGai
and Mevaseret Zion.
Netanyahu said that the ultimate goal is to have a high-speed
rail line connecting the entire country from Kiryat Shimona
in the north to Eilat in the south that could even one day
connect to Jordan in the east, Israels Channel 2 reported.
The high-speed rail line has cost $1.9 billion and is
expected to carry passengers between Tel Aviv and Jeru-
salem in 28 minutes, including stops at Ben-Gurion Air-
port as well as the cities of Modiin and Latrun. The cur-
rent rail connection between the two cities follows an old
Ottoman-era rail line that takes considerably more time.
JNS.ORG
Jewish World
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NEWS ANALYSIS
U.S. has no clear path back to Israeli-
Palestinian negotiations
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas is talking
tough. And Israel and the United States
dont seem to mind too much or else
think that their best option at this point is
to grin and bear it.
Abbas used his September 26 speech
to the United Nations General Assembly
to accuse Israel of racism and genocide.
He and his aides again are raising the pos-
sibility of seeking U.N. action to sanction
Israel. They appear ready to bypass nego-
tiations with Israel in favor of seeking an
international declaration of a Palestinian
state positions consistently opposed by
Israel and the United States.
Still, Israeli and U.S. officials have been
relatively tepid in their responses. For
example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, whose dramatic and asser-
tive speeches have become an annual tra-
dition at the General Assembly, offered
only a quick rejection of Abbas withering
speech.
Perhaps more telling: Israel no longer
seems to be pushing the Obama adminis-
tration to penalize Abbas. That represents
a pivot from Israels posture following the
breakdown in talks between Israelis and
Palestinians in April and before the onset
of this summers Gaza war. During those
months, Israel and its allies in the U.S. pro-
Israel community and in Congress were
threatening to cut assistance to the Pales-
tinian Authority if Abbas sustained a gov-
ernment of technocrats that was backed
by Hamas.
But Abbas is smelling a lot sweeter after
Israels war with Hamas, according to a
lobbyist who works Middle East issues
on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers who wanted
to punish Abbas before the war are now
backing proposals that would return his
Fatah party to authority in the Gaza Strip,
where it was ousted by Hamas in bloody
fighting in 2007.
Especially with this possible new role
in Gaza, Israel may want to keep the Pales-
tinian Authority on life support, said the
lobbyist, who was speaking anonymously
in order to be candid.
The Obama administration does not
want the Palestinian Authority to bring its
case for statehood to the United Nations
again, but would not say what it was pre-
pared to do to prevent the P.A. from com-
ing before the Security Council.
I wont comment on hypotheticals, a
senior administration official said when
asked about Abbas proposal last month
at the General Assembly to consider an
Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank,
with land swaps, within a limited time
period.
I will say, however, that we strongly
believe that the preferred course of action
is for the parties to reach an agreement on
final-status issues directly, said the offi-
cial, who also spoke on condition of ano-
nymity to be candid. We have long made
clear that negotiations are the means by
which this conflict will be resolved and
that a resolution to it cannot by imposed
on the parties.
Translation: The Obama administration
wants to try getting the parties back to the
table to renew negotiations that collapsed
in April before considering how to deal
with the latest Palestinian U.N. initiative.
The Palestinians failed ultimately in
their 2012 effort to garner Security Coun-
cil recognition, not just because the United
States made clear it would veto any such
attempt, hypothetical or not, but because
the Palestinians could not acquire the nine
votes out of 15 necessary to take up the bid.
This time, the Palestinians believe their
chances have improved. The Jordanian
delegation, currently occupying one of the
Security Councils rotating seats, is circu-
lating a draft resolution that would have a
state in place by November 2016, with its
capital in Jerusalem.
If the Obama administration is not as
forthrightly pushing back against the reso-
lution now as it did in 2012, its because
it lacks a viable alternative, said Tamara
Coffman Wittes, the director of the Cen-
ter for Middle East Policy at the Brookings
Institution.
The United States does not have a
pathway back to negotiations, said Wittes,
a Middle East official at the State Depart-
ment during Obamas first term.
She pointed out that the Israelis and
the Palestinians are at considerable odds:
Abbas wants to bypass Israel and take his
case to the U.N., while Netanyahu wants
to ignore the Palestinians altogether and is
pushing for peace with other Arab nations
first.
Its a much easier place for the United
States to say Dont worry about that, lets
do this instead, said Wittes, describing
the circumstances of U.S. diplomacy two
years ago, when the administration was
able to tell Security Council members that
it is was cobbling together talks and that a
resolution was premature.
Its much more difficult for the United
States to block action in the United
Nations under the current circumstances,
she said. If it doesnt have that alterna-
tive, its left with watering down the reso-
lution, trying to moderate it.
Its not clear how any statehood resolu-
tion could be moderated so that it would
be acceptable to Israel while also satisfying
the Palestinians. The nine months of talks
that ended earlier this year did not seem
to produce any formula to overcome Pal-
estinian objections to two Israeli positions:
recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and
for continued Israeli military control of the
Jordan Valley.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may
next canvas regional powers next week to
see how to advance talks when he attends
a conference in Cairo. The gathering is
aimed at raising funds to rebuild the Gaza
Strip following this summers war.
The American Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee is backing bids to fund the Pales-
tinian Authority while underscoring that
such funding is conditional on its actions
in international arenas. Particularly of con-
cern would be any Palestinian attempt to
bring Israel before the International Crim-
inal Court because of its actions in Gaza
this summer, an AIPAC official suggested.
In an email, the official forwarded lan-
guage in current U.S. law that would stop
funding in case the Palestinians initiate
an International Criminal Court judicially
authorized investigation, or actively sup-
port such an investigation, that subjects
Israeli nationals to an investigation for
alleged crimes against Palestinians.
Netanyahu has said that any attempt to
bring Israel before the ICC would spell the
end of the peace process.
And going to the court would also be a
red line for Congress, said Senator Mark
Kirk (R-Ill.).
U.S. law makes it crystal clear that any
attempt by the Palestinian Authority to use
the International Criminal Court to casti-
gate Israel will terminate U.S. funds to the
West Bank and Gaza, period, Kirk wrote
in an email. The Palestinian Authority
should have absolutely no doubt that the
U.S. Congress will enforce this.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations
General Assembly on September 26. During that speech he called for a Palestin-
ian state. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Its not clear
how any
statehood
resolution could
be moderated so
that it would be
acceptable
to Israel while
also satisfying
the Palestinians.
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200 Jews move into Silwan
Tensions rise in eastern Jerusalem
BEN SALES
JERUSALEM Jewish and Arab
residents of the Jerusalem neigh-
borhood of Silwan disagree on
whether the neighborhood is his-
torically Jewish or Arab.
They disagree about whether
Israeli Jews should be living
there.
They even disagree on what to
call one of the main streets in the
neighborhood, a predominantly
Arab area just outside the walls
of the Old City.
The approximately 50,000
Arab residents of Silwan call it
Wadi Hilweh Street, after one of
the neighborhoods districts. The
700 or so Jewish residents call it
Maalot Ir David Street, or Ascent
to the City of David Street, after
the adjacent archaeological
site containing remains of King
Davids Jerusalem.
The dispute over the street
name is emblematic of tensions
that have existed here since Jews
first began acquiring property in
the neighborhood more than 20
years ago. But they rose signifi-
cantly last week, after about 200
Jews moved into 25 apartments in
Silwan in the middle of the night.
To some Silwan Arabs, the new
arrivals are infiltrators who dis-
turb the peace with private secu-
rity guards and aim to deprive
Silwan of its Arab character. The
Jewish residents see the neigh-
borhood as a historically Jewish
area and see no reason why Jews
should be restricted from living
there.
Were talking about an area
that has tremendous signifi-
cance to billions of people all
over the world, said Zeev Oren-
stein, the director of interna-
tional affairs for Elad, the Israeli
NGO responsible for much of
Silwans Jewish population
growth. Its a place of identity,
of meaning, of faith. For that
reason, I would expect people
to say its natural, in Jerusalem,
the capital of the State of Israel,
that if a person wants to live in
this area and has the means to
legally purchase a property,
thats something that should be
respected.
Elad runs the City of David
archaeological park, which
exhibits the remains of King
Davids palace, as well as an
underground tunnel once used
to transport water. These attrac-
tions draw about a half-million
visitors a year to Silwan.
Since 1991, the organization
has bought or built residential
units for hundreds of Jews in
Silwan. Elad is also hoping to
build a multi-story visitors cen-
ter on the site of a parking lot
purchased a decade ago from
Arabs. After the purchase,
archaeologi sts di scovered
millennia-old archaeological
remains there.
Orenstein said Jews and Arabs
mostly coexist peacefully in Sil-
wan. Hebrew and Arabic con-
versation can be heard from the
windows of adjacent apartments
in a quiet section of the neigh-
borhood that intersects with the
archaeological park.
But signs of tension arent
hard to find. Streets are dot-
ted with security cameras and
a private security company,
paid for by Israels Housing
Ministry, conducts patrols. An
Israeli-owned parking lot is
shut off behind a metal barri-
cade. One Jewish resident said
that the City of Davids manage-
ment instructed residents not to
speak to the press.
I feel like a stranger here,
said Ahmed Karain, a conve-
nience-store owner whose family
has lived in the neighborhood for
four generations. What do we
have? What services do we get?
The city abandons us.
The Jewish population growth
in Silwan is part of a larger Jew-
ish expansion in eastern Jerusa-
lem. Last week, a project to build
more than 2,000 housing units in
the Givat Hamatos neighborhood
was sharply condemned by the
United States and the European
Union, both of which described
the move as harmful to peace
prospects.
Theyre looking to enhance
Israeli control of this area, said
Yehudit Oppenheimer, execu-
tive director of Ir Amim, a non-
governmental organization that
advocates for Arab Jerusalem-
ites. They are using archaeology
for this. Through their activities
they want to change the char-
acter of Silwan and to prevent
a diplomatic solution regarding
Jerusalem.
Orenstein said Elad was not
involved in the purchase of the
most recent 25 apartments,
which were bought by a com-
pany called Kendall Finance.
Elad only advised Kendall on
how best to move tenants into
the apartments, Orenstein
said, and suggested that resi-
dents move in the middle of the
night because the move could
provoke altercations with local
Arabs.
Arab residents have contested
the legality of some of the sales,
and a 2009 report by Ir Amim,
citing court documents, alleged
that Elad acquired property in
Silwan that was declared absen-
tee property based on false
depositions. Orenstein said Elad
works with the full accordance
of the law.
We look forward to the day
where you can move into the
apartment you purchased in the
middle of the day, Orenstein
said. Right now, unfortunately,
there are extremists who seek to
make an issue of Arabs and Jews
living together.
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n 1 To help local low-income seniors, the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades in Tenafly collected about 5,000 briefs during a month-long
adult care brief drive, coordinated by Marlene Ceragno, a recre-
ational therapist in the JCCs senior department. The distribu-
tion is being handled by the Center for Food Action, BC Cheer
Program, Pascack Valley Meals on Wheels, and JFS Kosher Meals
on Wheels. From left, Michele Ogden, of Visiting Homemak-
ers; Freeholder Chairman David L. Ganz; Englewood Council-
woman Lynne Algrant; Ms. Ceragno; Freeholder Vice-Chair Dr.
Joan Voss; and the Center for Food Actions Jennifer Johnson,.
n 2 In commemoration of the 50th yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chana
Schneerson, the Lubavitcher rebbes mother, women of the Hillside/
Elizabeth community gathered at the home of Shterney Kanelsky
for a farbrengen. Ms. Kanelsky, associate director of Bris Avrohom,
sponsored the meeting in memory of the 10th yahrzeit of her mother,
Rebbetzin Chaya Esther Zaltzman, which falls on erev Yom Kippur.
n 3 Ben Porat Yosef sixth graders help build the schools
sukkah, which the kindergarteners decorated. It will be
used during chol hamoed (the intermediate days of Suk-
kot) for student lunch and holiday activities.
n 4 Marina Umansky, the Jewish Home at Rockleighs assistant direc-
tor of recreation, left, with JHR resident Joanie Koch at a recent group
watercolor art exhibit by JHR residents at Bunburys in Piermont, N.Y.
The exhibit evolved from a class given at JHR over the past year.
n 5 Students at the Hebrew school at the Chabad Jewish Cen-
ter of NW Bergen County took part in a Tashlich ceremony
at a stream behind the synagogue in Franklin Lakes.
n 6 The Queens Tea, a project of the Chabad Center of Pas-
saic County to benefit its Friendship Circle program, was held
last month at the Packanack Lake Clubhouse. The tea hon-
ored Lana Ladenheim, Nigina Shindelman, and Debra Till for
their community involvement. More than 140 women attended
the brunch, which featured guest speaker Liesel Appel.
n 7 The sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom in Park Ridge held
its first annual 5K Dalias Walk, held in memory of Dalia Lei-
bowitz, the cantors wife, who died of cancer last year at 53.
More than 100 people participated, raising $10,000, which will
be used to improve the daily life of women fighting cancer. The
sisterhood plans to assist with transportation, meals, shopping,
pet care, and the other everyday needs that often become dif-
ficult for a family to manage when a mother becomes ill.
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The Jewish dressmaker
FDR turned away
RAFAEL MEDOFF
WASHINGTON Was the Jewish lady tai-
lor who ran a Prague dressmaking shop
a potential Nazi spy?
The Roosevelt administration appar-
ently thought so.
The Jewi sh Museum Milwaukee
recently opened a remarkable exhibit
about the late Hedy Strnad, a Jewish-
Czech dressmaker who with her hus-
band, Paul, attempted to immigrate
to the United States on the eve of the
Holocaust.
The exhibit has its roots in a December
1939 letter sent by Paul to his cousins in
Milwaukee, asking them to help seek per-
mission for him and his wife to come to
America. Paul enclosed eight of Hedys
clothing design sketches. He knew the
U.S. authorities would turn away refugees
who might have trouble finding employ-
ment; Hedys sketches demonstrated her
professional skills.
Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem,
Israels Holocaust museum, by the
Strnads niece, Brigitte Rohaczek, pro-
vided the Milwaukee exhibit designers
with additional information. She shared
poignant memories of her vivacious Aunt
Hedy her real name was Hedwig and
the dressmaking shop she owned and
operated in Prague. Hedy a lady tai-
lor, as Rohaczek described her some-
times had her seamstresses sew clothes
for Rohaczeks dolls.
The directors of the Milwaukee
museum came up with an innovative
way to remember the Strnads: enlisting
the costume makers from the Milwau-
kee Repertory Theater to create clothing
based on Hedys sketches.
The resulting exhibit, Stitching His-
tory from the Holocaust, is a powerful
and moving way to introduce an indi-
vidual, personal dimension to Holocaust
remembrance. It features eight outfits,
among them fitted blouses and blazers,
paired with A-line skirts, and knee-length
dresses that cinched at the waist.
Why were the Strnads denied admis-
sion to the United States? Americas
immigration laws at the time made it dif-
ficult for refugees such as the Strnads to
enter, and the way the Roosevelt admin-
istration implemented those laws made
it even harder.
Franklin Roosevelts State Depart-
ment piled on extra requirements and
Paul and Hedy Strnad were rejected
in their efforts to flee Czechoslovakia
and seek safe haven in the United
States on the eve of the Holocaust.
SEE STRNAD PAGE 41
Rafael Medoff is director of the David S.
Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
These are among the designs by
Hedy Strnad displayed at the Jewish
Museum Milwaukee exhibit.
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1. Month that bring joy, traditionally
5. Some Jaffa fruits
10. Dave Bergs magazine
13. Many synagogue fundraisers
15. Israel, as far as Iran is concerned
16. Avraham, for short
17. Makin Whoopee singer
19. Purim drink, perhaps
20. Gaon of note
21. The sun does it as Shabbat ends
22. Ratio for mathematician John von
Neumann
23. Tanach prophet
25. Happen again, as a Jewish holiday
27. Levittown feature
31. Scooby ___ (Cartoon shepherded by
Fred Silverman)
32. Abbr. for the name of Rabbi Issac
Luria, with The
33. Paddan ___ (whence patriarch
Abram)
35. Bat mitzvah dances
39. Program to save Jewish children
during World War II
43. 52-Down rival
44. The ___ Frank House (Amsterdam
tourist trap)
45. Dead or Red body of water
46. Where Jacques Derrida was born
(abbr.)
48. Hey There, Its ___ (feature film
which Mel Blanc contributed to)
51. Supervised Jewish slaves in Egypt
55. Lhitraot!
56. AJC target
57. One of dozens in the Talmud (abbr.)
59. Primo Levis lands
63. Jerusalem Post money-makers
64. Heavily contested part of Jerusalem
66. Daisy ___ (Lil Abner character)
67. The ___ (Conor Cruise OBrien
work about Israel)
68. Clem ___ (Eef Barzelays alt country
band)
69. Adam Levine participated in the ice
bucket challenge to raise money
for it (abbr.)
70. Freud and Sokolow
71. Circumcise
Down
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2. Movement for Tristan Tzara
3. He played a presidential candidate in
Sorkins West Wing
4. Attacked Entebbe
5. Michele of Glee
6. Holiday ___
7. In an Israel cab, its called a moneh
8. Wailed at the Wall
9. Enemy of Isr.
10. Street ___ (David Blaine talent)
11. ___ Malkeinu (Our Father, Our
King)
12. NYU historian Hasia
14. Capture territory, as during the Six-
Day War
18. Hes on many Second Temple Period
coins
22. Cause for excitement at Haaretz
24. Neturei ___ (anti-Zionist Jewish
group)
26. Reactions to Yehudi Menhuin playing
the violin
27. Sponge ___ (Passover desert)
28. Novelist Leon (Exodus)
29. Its sometimes thrown for tashlich on
Rosh Hashana
30. Worker at a Purim event
34. Purim gifts Shalach ___
36. Bette Midlers The ___
37. Bay ___ (one-time site of The House
of Love and Prayer)
38. Darren who created Melrose Place
40. Abby and others
41. Treif swimmers
42. Israeli Zionism sometimes does it to
the diaspora
47. Surrendered, as Bobby Fischer
sometimes would at chess
49. Ashton and Mila or Chelsea and
Marc
50. Rothschild and de Hirsch
51. Jewish favorite of 2012
52. See 43-Across
53. Lessens emigration restrictions
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from Bnai Brith)
58. Org. that gives a Dinah Shore schol-
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60. The Second Temple was left in it
after 70 CE
61. The King ___
62. It may lead to the mikvah
64. It screens tourists flying from NYC
to Tel Aviv
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One of Hedy Strnads designs, seen in
the exhibit Stitching History from the
Holocaust.
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Sukkot: The happy holiday
T
he classical rabbis
referred to Sukkot
simply as HeChag:
The Holiday.
We wouldnt call it that
today, when many more
people attend services on
Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur than on Sukkot. But
when the Temple stood in
Jerusalem, Sukkot was the
time to be there.
The Talmud says that one
who has not seen the Sukkot
water libation ceremony
in the Temple has not seen
rejoicing!
While the Temple is no more and we no
longer offer water libations, for those who
observe Sukkot it is still a very happy time.
The High Holy Days are a serious time filled
with prayer and introspection. But then
we come to Sukkot and the fun begins!
We move outside and build a sukkah,
a temporary dwelling to spend a week
communing with nature,
experiencing Gods wonders
in a way more personal and
direct than most of us usually
do. We decorate our sukkot
so that they are beautiful;
we invite family, friends, and
community to join us for
meals.
The mitzvah is to dwell
i n sukkot for a week,
as it says in the Book of
Leviticus: You shall live
in sukkot seven days; all
citizens in Israel shall live
in Sukkot, in order that
future generations may
know that I made the Israelite people
live in sukkot when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt. (23:42-43) So the
sukkah is a historical reminder of our
forty year wandering in the desert where
God protected us. It is also the fall harvest
festival, the forerunner of Thanksgiving.
We look at our bounty and we give thanks
to God, provider of all.
We purchase for ourselves a lulav and
etrog set and for a week we bless and
shake them. After all the words we said
on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we
stop with all the talking and take action.
We pick up our lulav and etrog set, hold
the four items together, and we shake
them as a wordless prayer. We recognize
Gods presence in nature, in all that
grows, in every corner of the world. It
is something so far removed from our
regular experience that it feels both
strange and meaningful at the same time.
It can be done by young and old alike, it
takes no practice or training. All you have
to do is to open your heart and mind,
making yourself ready to try something
new and different.
We often think of our Judaism as
logical and rational. On Sukkot, though,
we not only invite living guests, but our
long dead ancestors too! The tradition
of Ushpizin comes from the mystical
world of Kabbalah; on each of the
seven nights of Sukkot we invite seven
Biblical characters: Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David.
Many also invite seven women from our
tradition today as well. There is not yet an
agreed-upon list, but many use the seven
female prophets named in the Talmud
(BT Megillah 14a-b): Sarah, Miriam,
Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah,
and Esther. Other lists include Rebecca,
Rachel, Leah, Eve, and Ruth.
If youve sat through the long services
of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, then
you owe it to yourself to enjoy some of
the joy of Sukkot shake that lulav and
eat in the sukkah. Take your Judaism out
of the synagogue, sit under the stars and
contemplate the beauty of nature and
the fragility of life. Be thankful for all that
you have. Enjoy the people around you.
Slow down, turn off your electronics and
breathe deeply.
Dont miss out on all that Judaism has to
offer. The best is yet to come.
Wishing you a very joyous Sukkot!
Rabbi
Randall
Mark
Shomrei
Torah - Wayne
Conservative
Congregation
bureaucratic obstacles. In an internal
memo in 1940, Assistant Secretary of
State Breckinridge Long sketched out
his departments policy to delay and
effectively stop refugee immigration
by putting every obstacle in the way,
such as requiring additional documents
and resorting to various administrative
devices which would postpone and post-
pone the granting of the visas.
The annual quota of immigrants from
Czechoslovakia was small just 2,874
but even that quota was not filled in any
year during FDRs 12 years in office.
In 1940, the year the Strnads wanted to
immigrate, the Czech quota was only 68
percent filled; nearly 1,000 quota places
sat unused. Even though there was room
in the quota, and even though Hedy was
a successful businesswoman and the cou-
ple had relatives in the United States, the
Strnads applications were turned down.
At the same time the Strnads were
seeking a haven, refugee advocates
were trying to convince the Roosevelt
administration to permit European Jews
to settle in areas that were at the time U.S.
territories but not states, such as the Vir-
gin Islands and Alaska.
After Kristallnacht in November 1938,
the governor and legislative assembly
of the Virgin Islands offered to open its
doors to Jewish refugees, but Roosevelt
personally blocked the proposal.
In public and private statements, FDR
claimed that Nazi spies might sneak into
America disguised as refugees. U.S. offi-
cials imagined that if spies reached the
Virgin Islands, it would put them within
easy reach of the mainland United States.
(No Nazi spies were ever discovered
among the few Jewish refugees who were
let into the country.)
As for proposals to settle Jews in
Alaska, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Jr.
noted in his diary that Roosevelt said he
would support the plan only if no more
than 10 percent of the settlers were Jews
so as to avoid the undoubted criticism
that we would be subjected to if there
were an undue proportion of Jews, FDR
explained.
Shortly afterward, the administration
pushed through legislation that made
it even more difficult for Jewish refu-
gees to qualify for U.S. visas. The close
relatives edict, as it was called, barred
the entry of anyone who had close rela-
tives in Europe. The theory was that the
Nazis might take their relatives hostage in
order to force them to become spies for
Hitler. An interesting theory, but there
was no evidence to substantiate it.
With all doors shut, the fate of Paul and
Hedy and countless other Jewish refu-
gees was sealed. They were sent first
to the Terezin concentration camp, an
hour north of Prague. Then they were
deported to the Warsaw Ghetto.
What exactly happened next is unclear.
They may have been murdered in War-
saw, or they may have been deported,
along with the other Jews of Warsaw, to
the Treblinka death camp and died there.
The Stitching History exhibit, open
through February 28, is a fitting tribute
to a life taken too soon. It is also a sad
reminder of a time when the U.S. govern-
ment regarded Jewish refugees even a
lady tailor from Prague as a danger.
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FROM PAGE 39
These are among the designs by
Hedy Strnad displayed at the Jewish
Museum Milwaukee exhibit.
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Friday
OCTOBER 10
Shabbat in Wayne: The
Chabad Center of Passaic
County hosts a Sukkot
meal following Mincha-
Maariv services, 6 p.m.
194 Ratzer Road. Chani,
(973) 964-6274 or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Shabbat in Leonia:
Congregation Adas
Emuno has a Sukkot
pot luck dinner at 6:30,
followed by services at
7:30 and folk music in the
sukkah at 8:15. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Saturday
OCTOBER 11
Shabbat for pets in
River Edge: Temple
Avodat Shalom offers a
petting zoo, 3:45 p.m.,
pizza in the sukkah at 5,
and pet blessings in the
sukkah at 5:45. Pets must
be on a leash or in an
appropriate pet carrier.
385 Howland Ave. (201)
489-2463.
Sunday
OCTOBER 12
Childrens program:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah continues a
Sunday Specials series
for 4- to 7-year-olds,
9:30-11 a.m. Monthly
activities include songs,
crafts, bouncy castle,
science, and cooking.
Nut-free snacks. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7733 or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
Sukkot in Wayne: The
Chabad Center of Passaic
County hosts a Simchas
Bais Hashoeva breakfast
in the sukkah, 10 a.m.
Party for adults and
children with stories and
entertainment by John
Pizzi. 194 Ratzer Road.
Chani, (973) 964-6274 or
www.jewishwayne.com.
Dr. Adolfo Roitman
Dead Sea scrolls: The
Glen Rock Jewish Center
and Temple Beth Sholom
of Fair Lawn sponsor
a program on The
Meaning of the Dead
Sea Scrolls for Judaism:
Myth and Reality, by
Dr. Adolfo Roitman, at
the GRJC, 11 a.m. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
797-9321, ext. 415, or
(201) 652-6624.
Sukkot in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael hosts the
Wandering Que, a kosher
pop-up smokehouse
barbecue with a large
Texas-style wood-
burning barbecue, in the
shuls parking lot/sukkah,
12:15-9 p.m. Barbecue
menu features award-
winning pulled and
sliced brisket (platters
and sandwiches), ribs,
chicken, turkey legs, hot
dogs/sausages, chili,
cholent, lamb belly,
bacon baked beans,
soup, key limeade, and
side dishes. 389 West
Englewood Ave. (201)
837-2795.
Family program in
New Milford: Solomon
Schechter Day School
of Bergen County offers
Sundays at Schechter, a
community-wide Jewish
themed interactive family
series, with a Sukkah
Bash with Musical IQ,
1-3 p.m. Storytelling,
musical instruments,
songs, drumming
workshops, arts and
crafts, and nut-free
snacks. Special lunch
for alumni families with
young children at 12:30.
295 McKinley Ave. (201)
262-9898, ext. 213 or
events@ssdsbergen.org.
Sukkot in Franklin
Lakes: The Chabad
Jewish Center of NW
Bergen County has a
community childrens
pizza party in the
largest sukkah in the
town, 4 p.m. Activities
include making personal
stone-baked pizzas,
refreshments, crafts,
prizes, childrens
entertainment, and lively
Israeli music. 75 Pulis
Ave. Rabbi Chanoch
Kaplan, (201) 848-0449
or rabbi@chabadplace.
org.
Ruth Calderon
Knesset member in
Teaneck: Ruth Calderon,
a member of the Israeli
Knesset, discusses
Talmud as a Bridge
Between Secular and
Religious Israelis at
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m. 389 W.
Englewood Ave. (201)
837-2795.
Celebrating Rabbi
Goldin in Englewood:
To honor Rabbi Shmuel
Goldins completion of
his Torah commentary,
Unlocking the Torah
Text, Congregation
Ahavath Torah honors
its head rabbi at a
Simchat Beit Hashoeva
in the shuls new sukkah,
7 p.m. Music, dance, and
refreshments. Book sets
available for sale and
signing. 240 Broad Ave.
(201) 568-1315 or www.
ahavathtorah.org.
Monday
OCTOBER 13
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues its Smile on
Seniors program with
soup in the sukkah, at the
center, 11:30 a.m. Light
brunch. $5. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Hadassah meets in
Teaneck: Teaneck-
Hackensack Hadassah
meets at Congregation
Beth Sholom for a
catered dairy luncheon
in the sukkah, 12:30 p.m.
Refreshments. 354
Maitland Ave. Inge, (201)
837-2948.
Tuesday
OCTOBER 14
Rabbi Alberto
Zeilicovich
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Rabbi
Alberto Zeilicovich of
Temple Beth Sholom in
Fair Lawn will discuss
A Different Perspective
on the High Holy Days.
Light lunch. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Transportation
available. (973) 595-0111
or www.jfsnorthjersey.
org.
Sukkah party in
Teaneck: CareOne
in Teaneck hosts a
community sukkah party
with a magic show by
Simon Mandal and face
painting by Snazzy Jazzy,
1-3 p.m. 544 Teaneck
Road. (201) 862-3300.
Wednesday
OCTOBER 15
Bus trip to the Bronx:
The Englewood & Cliffs
chapter of ORT America
hosts a bus trip/ guided
tour to Woodlawn
Cemetery and City Island,
with a gourmet lunch.
Bus leaves at 8:45 a.m.
from Cong. Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee,
1449 Anderson Ave.
Bunny, (201) 585-2028.
Simchat Torah in
Tenafly: Temple Sinai
of Bergen County offers
a young family service,
5:30 p.m., for 2- to
6-year-olds, who must
be accompanied by a
parent. 1 Engle St. (201)
568-3035.
Simchat Torah in
Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno has pizza in
the sukkah, 6 p.m., and
services at 7. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Simchat Torah and
consecration service in
Closter: Temple Beth El
invites the community to
an erev Simchat Torah/
consecration service
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 6:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Simchat Torah and
in River Edge: Temple
Avodat Shalom invites
the community to an
erev Simchat Torah/
for new religious school
students, 7 p.m. 385
Howland Ave. (201) 489-
2463.
Thursday
OCTOBER 16
Simchat Torah in River
Edge: Temple Avodat
Shalom has a service,
10 a.m., followed by
Torah study and lunch
sponsored by Rabbi
Jacobsons discretionary
fund, 10 a.m. 385
Howland Ave. (201) 489-
2463.
The kids bluegrass band Astrograss performs a family concert
at Manhattans Jewish Museum on Sunday, October 12, at
11:30 a.m. Some of the songs are from the groups 2012 album,
Colored Pencil Factory; others celebrate the natural world,
in honor of Sukkot. 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
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Simchat Torah in
Franklin Lakes: The
Chabad Jewish Center of
NW Bergen County has
a community Simchat
Torah celebration,
5:30 p.m. including an
open bar, buffet dinner,
childrens program with
prizes, and dancing all
night long. 75 Pulis Ave.
Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan,
(201) 848-0449 or
rabbi@chabadplace.org.
Simchat Torah in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
celebrates with dancing,
buffet dinner, prizes for
children, 6:30 p.m. 194
Ratzer Road. Chani,
(973) 964-6274 or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Simchat Torah in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel offers
services; Hebrew
school students, recent
alumni, and adults can
watch an entire Torah
scroll be unfurled,
followed by singing and
dancing with the Torah,
7:30 p.m. Refreshments.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272 or www.bisrael.
com.
Simchat Torah in
Paramus: The Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers a
community celebration,
7:15 p.m. East 304
7691 or www.jccparamus.
org.
Friday
OCTOBER 17
Simchat Torah for
women: The Teaneck
Womens Tefillah begins
its celebration with
Shacharit at 8:45 a.m.,
followed by hakafot,
Torah reading, Musaf, and
a kiddush. All women
welcome to participate.
For location information,
email teaneck.womens.
tefillah@gmail.com.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El in Closter
invites the community
to Shabbat evening
services at 7:30 pm. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. 201-768-5112
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth hosts a
festive kosher Shabbat
dinner at 6 p.m., followed
by services and the
annual Rabbi Joshua
Trachtenberg Memorial
Lecture, where Rabbi
Geoffrey A. Mittleman,
founding director of
Sinai and Synapses, will
talk about The Strange
Nature of Time. 1666
Windsor Road. Dinner
reservations, (201) 833-
1322 or www.emeth.org.
Saturday
OCTOBER 18
Military bridge in
Montebello: The
sisterhood of the
Montebello Jewish
Center hosts a night of
military bridge, 7:30 p.m.
34 Montebello Road,
Montebello, N.Y. (845)
357-2430.
Sunday
OCTOBER 19
Susan Tuchman
Anti-Semitism at
college: The Bergen
County High School
of Jewish Studies
invites parents of
college-bound teens
to a community-wide
breakfast at Mayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls in Teaneck,
9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Susan Tuchman, director
of the Center for Law &
Justice for the Zionist
Organization of America,
will speak.1650 Palisade
Ave. (201) 488-0834 or
www.wizevents.com/
register/2950.
Open house/family
event in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El offers
Fall Family Day, with
a trackless train, face
painting, photo booth,
petting zoo, pony rides,
food, bouncy house,
and CMEK basketball,
11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. 180
Piermont Road. (201)
750-9997, or www.
templeemanu-el.com.
Parents learn about
Shabbat: The Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers its
Parent Involvement
Program, led by Rob
Chananie and Eileen
Schneider, to teach
parents of bnai mitzvah
children about the
Shabbat services,
9:45 a.m. East 304
7691 or www.jccparamus.
org.
Awareness walk in
Westwood: The social
action committee of
Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson co-sponsors
the Walk for Water
with the Westwood
Area Clergy Council to
raise awareness for the
women of Rwanda, at
Westvale Park on Sand
Road, 1-5 p.m. Attendees
meet at the park and
bring 2-liter bottles
or gallon jugs to fill
the bottles at Pascack
Brook Park. (201) 666-
8998 or walkforwater@
parksidechurch.net.
Film in Franklin Lakes:
Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey hosts a screening
of The 1939 Worlds Fair
in New York City, 2 p.m.
The silent color recording
is from the Medicus
Amateur Film Collection;
a soundtrack of dance
music from the 1920s and
1930s has been added.
Refreshments. 558 High
Mountain Road. (201)
560-0200 or www.tenjfl.
org.
Cabaret entertainment
in Fair Lawn: Temple
Beth Sholom hosts
Cabaret Night on
the Lower East Side,
including entertainment
by the mentalist team of
Larry & Raven, comedy
by Brad Zimmerman, and
a show by ventriloquist
Kenny Warren, all
emceed by Matt
Liebman. Catering by
Kosher Nosh, 5:30 p.m.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321.
Singles
Sunday
OCTOBER 12
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
bagel and lox brunch at
the JCC Rockland, 11 a.m.
450 West Nyack Road.
$8. Gene Arkin, (845)
356-5525.
Sunday
OCTOBER 19
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+
meets for lunch,
Pictionary, prizes, and
mingling at Congregation
Agudath Israel, 12:45 p.m.
$10. 20 Academy Road.
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
singles@agudath.org, or
slg@bellatlantic.net.
Thursday
OCTOBER 23
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen
Rock Jewish Center,
12:30-2 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
lunch. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Free outdoor
workout Oct. 19
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will host
Jewish New Year, New You a free, one-
hour high intensity workout with JCC
master trainer Kimani Greene. For teens
and adults of all levels, the class will fea-
ture a live DJ and will be held outdoors,
weather permitting, on the JCC tennis
courts. The goal is to help people take one
step further to a healthier lifestyle as the
new Jewish Year begins.
The JCC has a skilled, inspirational team
of certified fitness instructors teaching
Yoga, Pilates, Barre, Spin, Zumba, and
more.
The rain date is Sunday, October 26,
from 10 to 11 a.m. For information, call
Barbara Marrott at (201) 408-1475 or bmar-
rott@jccotp.org.
Community
sukkah party
at Care One
Care One at Teaneck is hosting a
sukkah party for the community
on Tuesday, October 14, from 1 to
3 p.m. Magician Simon Mandal will
perform at 1:30, and Snazzy Jazzy
will offer face painting. Care One is
at 544 Teaneck Road. For informa-
tion, call (201) 862-3300.
Simon Mandal
Acrobats from
Peking coming
to Englewood
The National Acrobats of Peking
will perform on Saturday, Novem-
ber 8, at 8 p.m., at the Bergen Per-
forming Arts Center, 30 North Van
Brunt Street in Englewood. Tickets
are available at www.ticketmaster.
com or www.bergenpac.org, or at
the box office, (201) 227-1030.
Childrens program
features nature
presentation
The religious school at the Jewish Com-
munity Center of Paramus/Congrega-
tion Beth Tikvah continues a free Sunday
Special series for children in kindergar-
ten to second grade. The next day in the
series, Sunday, October 12, at 9:30 a.m.,
is a nature program with Elinor Grayzel, a
naturalist educator from Flat Rock Brook
Nature Center. Kosher nut-free snacks will
be served in the shuls sukkah.
The synagogue is at 304 East Midland
Ave., in Paramus. For information, call
(201) 262-7733 or email edudirector@jcc-
paramus.org.
Obituaries
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Ralph Goldman, former JDC head
and a builder of Israel, dies at 100
MARCY OSTER
AND RON KAMPEAS
JERUSALEM Ralph Goldman,
who as a young man helped
shepherd the State of Israel into
existence and later devoted
his professional life to bring-
ing humanitarian relief to Jews
across the globe, has died at 100.
Mr. Goldman, who worked
with the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee since
1968 he served twice as its
chief executive and still held the
title of honorary executive vice
president died on Tuesday in
Jerusalem, where he had lived
for decades.
Active in arming and populating
pre-state Israel, he went on to lead
the effort to bring American tech-
nical know-how and educational
techniques to the fledgling state.
Ralph was an iconic and
transformative fi gure who
embodied the notion that all Jews
are responsible for one another
throughout his long and extraor-
dinary life, the JDCs CEO, Alan
Gill, said.
Born on September 1, 1914, in
the town of Lechovitz in what
is now Ukraine, when he was
11 Mr. Goldman and his family
immigrated to a Jewish suburb of
Boston, where he attended the
local public schools during the
day and Hebrew school five days
a week in the late afternoons.
Graduating from Hebrew College
in 1934, he delivered the valedic-
tory speech in Hebrew.
As a young man, Mr. Gold-
man was involved in local Zionist
endeavors. In 1937 he won a con-
test sponsored by a student Zion-
ist organization for his essay on
Stalins idea of creating a home-
land for the Jews in Siberia.
He was awarded a fellowship to
spend a year in British Mandate
Palestine, where he participated
in the establishment of Kibbutz
Hanita in the Galilee.
He later recalled two months
during the 1938 fellowship he
spent in Jerusalem, where he and
some friends sought out Zionist
leaders such as Berl Katznelson,
Moshe Sharett, and Menachem
Ussishkin, who barely were
known in the outside world,
but were heroes to the young
Zionists.
We simply said to them please
tell us whats happening, and
they took us seriously, Mr. Gold-
man said in an undated interview
posted on YouTube.
Mr. Goldman returned to the
United States and went on to
earn a bachelors degree from
Boston University and a masters
in social work from Harvard.
He served in the U.S. Army
from 1942 to 1945, first in the
United States, then in England.
At the conclusion of World War
II, he was stationed in Germany,
where he was assigned to assist
Jews in Displaced Persons camps.
He was active in the New York
operation of pre-state Israels
army, the Haganah, helping to
buy and lease airplanes and ships
to carry immigrants from Europe
to Palestine, and assisting in the
effort to recruit personnel for the
nascent force. Through this work
Mr. Goldman met and befriended
Teddy Kollek, who later would
become the longtime mayor of
Jerusalem.
Decades later, Mr. Goldman
still registered embarrassment
when he was reminded of his
purchase of the President Warf-
ield, a one-time ferry. Named for
the shipping magnate uncle of
Wallis Simpson the Baltimore
socialite and notorious admirer
of Hitler who had married King
Edward VIII the boat was flat-
bottomed and unsuitable for
long sea voyages. The President
Warfield barely made it across
the Atlantic to Marseilles, where
5,000 Jewish refugees awaited
passage to British Mandate
Palestine.
His Haganah colleagues were
furious with Mr. Goldman, but
they also were desperate to move,
so they prepared the boat for
launch, with Mr. Goldman help-
ing to manage the passage across
the Mediterranean. The boat was
renamed the Exodus, and its
standoff outside Haifa became
a symbol of Jewish resistance to
Britains refusal to allow in Jews.
Mr. Goldman became a close
confidant and adviser to Israels
first prime minister, David Ben-
Gurion, and in 1951 he was in
charge of the prime ministers
initial visit to the United States as
head of state. Mr. Goldman spent
several years after that coordinat-
ing a U.S. program that delivered
technical know-how to emerging
countries; a 1951 announcement
in New York said he was heading
up the search for skilled work-
ers to train Israelis.
He later served as executive
director of the American-Israel
Cultural Foundation and the
Israel Education Fund, an arm
of the United Jewish Appeal that
helped establish and improve
high schools in Israel.
Mr. Goldman joined the JDC in
1968, when he became the asso-
ciate director of its Israel opera-
tion, establishing its department
for the care of the elderly and
introducing innovations in early
childhood care. He would serve
as the chief executive of JDC from
1976 until 1985, and again from
1986 to 1988.
Mr. Goldman was a driving
force in JDCs low-profile activi-
ties behind the Iron Curtain, and
in the 1970s and 1980s he brought
JDC programs back into the open
in communist countries. He led
sensitive negotiations with Soviet
leaders, navigating JDCs return
to what would become the for-
mer Soviet Union almost imme-
diately after its collapse.
Asked in 2012 how he pulled
off such negotiations without the
benefit of diplomatic training or
accreditation, Mr. Goldman said,
I was representing the Jewish
people. I couldnt afford to fail.
Last month Limmud FSU and
the Jewish community of Belarus
joined to celebrate Mr. Gold-
mans 100th birthday as part of
the opening gala at the begin-
ning of a Limmud FSU confer-
ence held in Vitebsk.
Mr. Goldman also was honored
at JDCs centennial celebration in
Jerusalem in May.
His son, David Ben-Rafael,
a senior Israeli diplomat, was
killed in the March 1992 bombing
of the Israeli embassy in Argen-
tina. Mr. Goldman is survived by
his daughters, Judith Baumgold
of Jerusalem and Naomi Gold-
man of New York; a daughter-
in-law, Elisa Ben-Rafael of Jeru-
salem; and six grandchildren, as
well as great-grandchildren.
JTA WIRE SERVICE Ralph Goldman helping Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
with his coat. COURTESY JDC
Then-Israeli President Shimon Peres, standing, greets Ralph Goldman at a salute for the former
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee leaders 100th birthday in 2014. COURTESY JDC
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Ange Guez of New York
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by daughters Martine
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Frieda Gabriel of Canada;
and two grandchildren.
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Florence Nydick
Florence Nydick, ne
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Before retiring, she
was a secretary at Henry
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Jersey City. She was a
former member of ORT
Hudson County, Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, and
the Skyline Cabana Club.
Predeceased by her
husband, Hy, in 2003,
she is survived by her
children, Alan of Rock-
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( Joseph) of Jersey City.
Eden Memorial Chapels,
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Yefim Reznik
Yefim Reznik, 67, of Fair
Lawn, died October 2.
Before retiring, he was
a bus driver for New Jer-
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Rita Sherman
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The creation of the program expands
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A documentary revealing a Jewish moth-
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national Film Festival in November.
We were very much drawn to the
subject matter of this ilm, which is why
we chose to sponsor it, said Joel Goldin,
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Little White Lie is the story of
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grew up as an only child in a Jewish
family in upstate New York. Dark
complexioned, she had long been told
throughout her childhood that she
favored her fathers swarthy Sicilian
grandfather. She didnt learn until
she returned from college after her
freshman year and confronted her
mother, that she was, in fact, the result
of an extramarital affair her mother
had with an African-American.
Now 37, Schwartz worked 10 years
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In interviews Schwartz has said that
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The festival runs from Friday,
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CLOSTER
Stunning home. Professionally renovated.
CLOSTER
Magnicent Col. Prime E.H. area.
ENGLEWOOD
Spacious 6 BR+/4.5 BTH. $898,000
ENGLEWOOD
Lovely 3 BR/2 BTH Brinckerhoff townhouse.
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FORT LEE
Spacious, sought-after 2 BR/2BTH w/terrace.
FORT LEE
Spectacular 3 BR corner unit. $418,000
OLD TAPPAN
Top of line custom home w/new pool. An oasis.
TEANECK
Vintage Colonial. Expansion Potential. $629K
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ORADELL
Beautifully appointed 5 BR/3.5 BTH Col.
PARAMUS
Gorgeous 5 BR/4.5 BTH home. Prime area.
TENAFLY
Charming front/back split-level. Ideal location.
TENAFLY
Great open oor plan. Cul-de-sac. $2.1M.
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GREENPOINT
Brick bldg. 2 apts, retail & bsmnt. $4.995M
LOWER EAST SIDE
Renov 3 BR/1.5 BTH condo. $999,000
BEDFORD STUYVESANT
Garden duplex plus rental apartment. $980,000
MIDTOWN EAST
Great unit. Breathtaking courtyard. $340,000
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CHELSEA
The Greenwich House. A Chelsea gem.
UPPER WEST SIDE
Pre-war spacious 2 BR condo. Granite kitchen.
EAST VILLAGE
Studios, 1 & 2 BR. From $2,400/month.
GREENWICH VILLAGE
The Hamilton. Alcove studio. Doorman co-op bldg.
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Jeffrey Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
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